Now in full-color comes a witty and engaging look at Europe's history and art, from America's European travel guru. Rick Steves' Europe 101 helps you make the most of your sightseeing. A fun but informative guide, this "professor in your pocket" features chronologically organized chapters—from the pyramids to Picasso—that explain the forces behind Europe's most important cultural and artistic periods. Other features include handy lists of sights that allow you to link your newly acquired knowledge with the specific paintings, sculptures, and buildings you'll see on your trip, a humorous, readable style that is a joy to read compared with the history textbooks you slept on in school, and timelines, maps, drawings, and photos that illustrate Europe's story and round out your education.
Called by Arthur Frommer, the "rising star in travel guide publishing, " Rick Steves knows how to write guidebooks that make European culture accessible to everyone. This highly readable overview of European history and culture carefully ties each style of art to its historical era and relates it to the reader's trip. 250 photos. 30 illustrations. 15 maps.
Rick Steves is on a mission: to help make European travel accessible and meaningful for Americans. Rick has spent 100 days every year since 1973 exploring Europe. He's researched and written 24 travel guidebooks and hosts the public television series Rick Steves' Europe, now in its seventh season. He also organizes and leads tours of Europe and offers an information-packed website (ricksteves.com). Rick lives in Edmonds, WA, just north of Seattle, with his family.
Anonymous
Posted Sun Mar 04 00:00:00 EST 2012
...written with humor that will help you remember. Wanting to really understand what I was going to see in an upcoming trip I bought this book after watching several Rick Steves shows on public TV. It is an easy (but long) read giving a wonderful overview of what you'll see in Europe. If you like Rick Steves approach to "travel through the back door" you'll enjoy this look at European history, architecture and art.
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Posted Thu Apr 08 00:00:00 EDT 2010
Rick Steves provides a very readable overview of European history and art for American travellers. He covers a lot of territory with a light touch that is often amusing. If you are a fan of his tv programs, you will definitely enjoy this book. You can almost hear him speaking as you read it. He makes both the history and the art accessible to those of us who have only vague notions about either. It provides indispensible information for people who are going to Europe and want to have a better understanding of what they see there. It is also useful for travel in North America, as I discovered on a recent visit to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. From what I know from other sources, he has done good research and presented information fairly; I only noticed one error, and it was a minor one.
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Posted Sun Mar 11 00:00:00 EST 2012
This little book is packed with facts, diagrams and pictures that will enhance almost anyone's understanding of basic European history and art. Furthermore, it is a "fun read" primer.
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Now in full-color comes a witty and engaging look at Europe's history and art, from America's European travel guru. Rick Steves' Europe 101 helps you make the most of your sightseeing. A fun but informative guide, this "professor in your pocket" features chronologically organized chapters—from the pyramids to Picasso—that explain the forces behind Europe's most important cultural and artistic periods. Other features include handy lists of sights that allow you to link your newly acquired knowledge with the ...