Mein Urlaubsbuch

habe ich bereits gestern Abend begonnen. Eigentlich wollte ich dazwischen noch ein dünnes Buch lesen und mein Neues in den Urlaub mitnehmen. Aber da ich bei meinen ungelesenen Büchern habe ich irgendwie nicht das perfekte Zwischendurch-Buch gefunden habe, habe ich nun doch mit dem Urlaubsbuch begonnen. Da wir dieses Mal auch nicht fliegen, kann ich ja auch noch ein zweites Buch auf die Reise mitnehmen. Oder vielleicht ein drittes... ;-)

 

Meine Reiselektüre:

Simon WINDER
Danubia

Description: A charmingly personal history of Hapsburg Europe, as lively as it is informative, by the author of Germania

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.

 

Danubia, Simon Winder’s hilarious new book, plunges the reader into a maelstrom of alchemy, skeletons, jewels, bear-moats, unfortunate marriages and a guinea-pig village. Full of music, piracy, religion and fighting, it is the history of a strange dynasty, and the people they ruled, who spoke many different languages, lived in a vast range of landscapes, believed in rival gods and often showed a marked ingratitude towards their oddball ruler in Vienna. Readers who discovered Simon Winder’s storytelling genius and infectious curiosity in Germania will be delighted by the eccentric and fascinating tale of the Habsburgs and their world.