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1 online resource (1 audio file (18hr., 38 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Cast |
Read by James Cameron Stewart. |
| Summary |
Sitting on a bench at a communal table in a restaurant in Regensburg, his plate loaded with disturbing amounts of bratwurst and sauerkraut made golden by candlelight shining through a massive glass of beer, Simon Winder was happily swinging his legs when a couple from Rottweil politely but awkwardly asked: "So: why are you here?" This book is an attempt to answer that question. Why spend time wandering around a country that remains a sort of dead zone for many foreigners, surrounded as it is by a force field of historical, linguistic, climatic, and gastronomic barriers? Winder's book is propelled by a wish to reclaim the brilliant, chaotic, endlessly varied German civilization that the Nazis buried and ruined, and that, since 1945, so many Germans have worked to rebuild. Germania is a very funny book on serious topics-how we are misled by history, how we twist history, and how sometimes it is best to know no history at all. It is a book full of curiosities: odd food, castles, mad princes, fairy tales, and horse-mating videos. It is about the limits of language, the meaning of culture, and the pleasure of townscape. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Winder, Simon -- Travel -- Germany.
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Germany -- Description and travel.
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Germany -- Civilization.
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| Added Author |
Stewart, James Cameron.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781541494251 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1541494253 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT12122267 |
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