Danubia - A Personal History of Habsburg Europe
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Danubia is the brilliant and entertaining companion to the Sunday
Times top ten bestseller Germania. It was longlisted for the Samuel
Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2013. For centuries much of Europe
was in the hands of the very peculiar Habsburg family. An unstable
mixture of wizards, obsessives, melancholics, bores, musicians and
warriors, they saw off – through luck, guile and sheer mulishness –
any number of rivals, until finally packing up in 1918. From their
principal lairs along the Danube they ruled most of Central Europe
and Germany and interfered everywhere – indeed the history of
Europe hardly makes sense without them. Simon Winder’s extremely
funny new book plunges the reader into a maelstrom of alchemy,
skeletons, jewels, bear-moats, unfortunate marriages and a
guinea-pig village. Danubia is full of music, piracy, religion and
fighting. It is the history of a dynasty, but it is at least as
much about the people they ruled, who spoke many different
languages, lived in a vast range of landscapes, believed in many
rival gods and often showed a marked ingratitude towards their
oddball ruler in Vienna. Readers who discovered Simon Winder’s
genius for telling wonderful stories of middle Europe with Germania
will be delighted by the eccentric and fascinating stories of the
Habsburgs and their world. Danubia was longlisted for the Samuel
Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2013
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Simon Winder
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Macmillan/Picador
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