Free (Kindle) A New Grand Tour by Godfrey Hodgson [EU Cities Travel Culture History]

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A New Grand Tour: How Europe's Cities Made Our World Great by British author Godfrey Hodgson (profile @ OpenDemocracy, profile @ The Guardian), a journalist who was The Observer's foreign correspondent for the White House, and later taught at Oxford University, is his part-travelogue book of destination essays, exploring the history, culture, way of life, etc. of selected European cities in an homage to the traditional Grand Tour (Wikipedia) of bygone ages, incorporating both observations from the accounts of travelers in previous centuries as well as musings from his own personal experience visiting them during the course of his career, free for a limited time courtesy of publisher Endeavour Press.

This was originally published in 1995 by Penguin's Viking imprint.

Currently free @ Amazon (available to Canadians & in the UK and pretty much everywhere else Amazon sells worldwide, since this is being done via their KDP Select exclusive-or-else program)

Description
The great European cities that made our world…

Godfrey Hodgson’s New Grand Tour includes ten sketches of European cities, each of which has contributed something to the ferment, the still dangerous brew of European civilization.

Each will have something, even if only a distinct and rich way of life of its own, to contribute in the future.

Each essay reflects upon what moves and intrigues the author about the history, literature, politics, past and future of the city and the flavour of its way of life.

Together they are intended to paint an original portrait of the old and the new Europe.