Where have the people in any particular place actually come from? This evocative historical journey around the world shows us.
Norman Davies was for many years a professor at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, London University. He is the author of the acclaimed Vanished Kingdoms and the number one bestseller Europe- A History. His previous books, which include Rising '44, The Isles- A History and God's Playground- A History of Poland, have been translated worldwide. He has researched at universities from Harvard to Hokkaido, and is a Fellow of the British Academy, an Honorary Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford, and a visiting scholar at Pembroke College, Cambridge.
A book of wonders ... He writes history like nobody else. He thinks
like nobody else. He is a one-man refutation of the old idea that
history is always written by the victors. He writes from a
perspective that certainly takes in the victors, but also the
foolish, the wicked, the marginal, the defeated, the disappeared
and the forgotten. He sees the world as a whole, with its limitless
fund of stories. He sees the accidental nature of human lives and
the infinite variety of the delusions by which we survive
*Sunday Times*
If you are someone, or know someone, who is romanced by stamps, or
maps, or names, or journeys, or plaques - someone whose head is
always popping up from the papers or a Radio 4 documentary with the
words "did you know?" then I recommend this book to you. I loved
it. It deserves a shelf of its own
*The Times*
A rich, thought-stirring and deeply engaging blend of travelogue,
memoir and historical investigation
*New Statesman*
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