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Along the Amber Route - St Petersburg to Venice - cover

Along the Amber Route - St Petersburg to Venice

C.J. Schüler

Publisher: Sandstone Press

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'Timely and powerful.' Financial Times  Portable and expensive, amber has always been a desirable commodity. C.J. Schüler follows the historic Amber Route from St Petersburg to Venice through three millennia of history. Throughout his journey, current politics and his own family's experience of persecution and flight are never far from his mind.As he traces the greatest fault lines of European geopolitics and explores lands contested by Romans and Vandals, Teutons and Slavs, empires and the former Iron Curtain, Schüler must also confront his family history, Nazism and the Holocaust.
Available since: 02/27/2020.
Print length: 352 pages.

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