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The Discovery of France
- Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
- Length: 16 hrs and 49 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Illuminating, engrossing and full of surprises, The Discovery of France is a literary exploration of a country few will recognize; from maps and migration to magic, language and landscape, it's a book that reveals the 'real' past of France to tell the whole story - and history - of this remarkable nation.
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- Anonymous User
- 03-04-2023
Enticing and Entrancing - Enter and Submerge!
A delicious treat. Robb drips detail and encapsulates the whole of France. He doesn't tread lightly but rather, picks up stones and peers underneath. This isn't a tour guide, rather the author is a time traveler who threads a web of intricate beauty via the bizarre. Rivers are discovered, workers are respected, and the writing left me smelling the wild woody thyme on my hands and checking for dried mud on my soles before jumping into bed.
The reader is not given a top-down view but a ground view. So often historians focus on the rich to their cost and the reader's loss. Robb gives us the robust people who performed the work, he gives us the painting by delivering up all the minutiae of life.
This book traverses not just one France but every part.
The narrator is also brilliant, His is a confident measured style that pulls off the narrator's voice and the voices of other recorders,
I will re-listen many times. Worth every dollar and this was an independent review!
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