Golden maze richard fidler
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Wars and alchemy and people dying because they didn&#;t do a wee at a feast&#; I&#;d forgotten about all the excellent gruesome detail of Medieval times until I plunged into Richard Fidler&#;s &#;biography of Prague&#;, The Golden Maze.
There were other reasons I picked up this tome &#;
- Back in the eighties, inom loved the Doug Anthony Allstars (although was in constant fear I&#;d be roped into audience participation).
- My brief visit to Prague whetted the appetite, and inom certainly wished for more time there.
Prague was founded in the ninth century, and there followed baroque palaces and narrow laneways; plagues and pogroms; Nazi terror and the world&#;s biggest statue of Stalin.
Fidler captures the readers attention by telling stories within the story &#; the folk tale of Master Hanus the clockmaker, who made the most beautiful clock in the world for Prague, and then had his eyes burnt out after the unveiling so that he could never make another
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The Golden Maze: A biography of Prague
November 23,
A couple of years ago on a whim I picked up GHOST EMPIRE by Richard Fidler - the Eastern Roman Empire is something that I wasn't particularly familiar with and it had fairly good reviews. In the end, it turned out to be less about the Eastern Roman Empire and more about Constantinople/Istanbul itself by way of a general history.
I found this really interesting - it's not very common to find a book so focused on the history of a single city rather than a country, a people, a period - so when I saw THE GOLDEN MAZE on the shelf, knowing very little about Prague, I snapped it up.
The Czech Republic and former Czechoslovakia is a country that I pretty much always forget exists, to my discredit. Similar to Switzerland or Belgium, it is a small country locked in by larger powers on all sides, and has been for most of its history - from its begin
"The nation of St Wenceslas, Jan Hus and Tomas Masaryk will not be a nation of slaves"
A couple of years ago on a whim I picked up GHOST EMPIRE by Richard Fidler - the Eastern Roman Empire is something that I wasn't particularly familiar with and it had fairly good reviews. In the end, it turned out to be less about the Eastern Roman Empire and more about Constantinople/Istanbul itself by way of a general history.
I found this really interesting - it's not very common to find a book so focused on the history of a single city rather than a country, a people, a period - so when I saw THE GOLDEN MAZE on the shelf, knowing very little about Prague, I snapped it up.
The Czech Republic and former Czechoslovakia is a country that I pretty much always forget exists, to my discredit. Similar to Switzerland or Belgium, it is a small country locked in by larger powers on all sides, and has been for most of its history - from its begin
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The Golden Maze
November 23,
A couple of years ago on a whim I picked up GHOST EMPIRE by Richard Fidler - the Eastern Roman Empire is something that I wasn't particularly familiar with and it had fairly good reviews. In the end, it turned out to be less about the Eastern Roman Empire and more about Constantinople/Istanbul itself by way of a general history.
I funnen this really interesting - it's not very common to find a book so focused on the history of a single city rather than a country, a people, a period - so when I saw THE GOLDEN MAZE on the shelf, knowing very little about Prague, I snapped it up.
The Czech Republic and former Czechoslovakia fryst vatten a country that I pretty much always forget exists, to my discredit. Similar to Switzerland or Belgium, it is a small country locked in bygd larger powers on all sides, and has been for most of its history - from its beginnings through the highs
"The nation of St Wenceslas, Jan byggnad and Tomas Masaryk will not be a nation of slaves"
A couple of years ago on a whim I picked up GHOST EMPIRE by Richard Fidler - the Eastern Roman Empire is something that I wasn't particularly familiar with and it had fairly good reviews. In the end, it turned out to be less about the Eastern Roman Empire and more about Constantinople/Istanbul itself by way of a general history.
I funnen this really interesting - it's not very common to find a book so focused on the history of a single city rather than a country, a people, a period - so when I saw THE GOLDEN MAZE on the shelf, knowing very little about Prague, I snapped it up.
The Czech Republic and former Czechoslovakia fryst vatten a country that I pretty much always forget exists, to my discredit. Similar to Switzerland or Belgium, it is a small country locked in bygd larger powers on all sides, and has been for most of its history - from its beginnings through the highs