Poland: A Traveller’s Gazetteer

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Year: 2000
Pages: 301
Binding Paperback
ISBN 719557720

Product Code: 756767784

Description

Adam Zamoyski. This is the first comprehensive English-language guide to the historical sites of Poland. It contains an alphabetical listing of 1,161 town & villages, & covers more than 8,000 castles, churches, palaces, monuments & museums. Each object of interest is briefly described, with illuminating comments on its cultural or historical significance, & furnished with relevant dates & names of artists & patrons. A short introduction, a glossary, a list of rulers, & genealogical tables provide factual support. A set of maps & plans makes it easy to locate the sites. Adam Zamoyski is the foremost writer on Polish history & culture in the English language today.

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