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Rick Steves' Europe 101: History and Art for the Traveler (Rick Steves) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Rick Steves, Gene Openshaw
Publisher: Avalon Travel Publishing
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  25 reviews
Sales Rank: 42521
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 525
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.3 x 1.2
ISBN: 1566915163
Dewey Decimal Number: 914
EAN: 9781566915168
ASIN: 1566915163
Publication Date: April 26, 2007
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Amazon.com Review
This neat little book gives you enough practical knowledge of European art history to make your trip to the great museums and churches a lot more enjoyable. It connects yesterday's Europe with today's sights -- art, museums, buildings, and people. An essential tool for any traveler's backpack or suitcase.
Product Description
Now in full-color comes a witty and engaging look at Europe's history and art, from America's European travel guru. Rick Steves' Europe 101 helps you make the most of your sightseeing. A fun but informative guide, this "professor in your pocket" features chronologically organized chapters—from the pyramids to Picasso—that explain the forces behind Europe's most important cultural and artistic periods. Other features include handy lists of sights that allow you to link your newly acquired knowledge with the specific paintings, sculptures, and buildings you'll see on your trip, a humorous, readable style that is a joy to read compared with the history textbooks you slept on in school, and timelines, maps, drawings, and photos that illustrate Europe's story and round out your education.
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 What a great way to enhance your trip October 4, 2008
I last visited Europe 25 years ago on our honeymoon trip as a fresh graduate from art school. I have just returned from a month long trip to Europe with my family and while on the trip read Europe 101. The book completely enhanced the trip for me by providing the cultural and historical background for the art I was seeing. Yes - it covers several millennia of art and history in 500 pages, yes it is a survey but it is the best overview and survey I have read.
RS is very open in the book that this is an opinion piece and that it is NOT a scholarly work. However, it does a great job bringing to life and placing into a meaningful context what you are seeing. I often think that travellers (myself included) have a limited appreciation of what they see because it is viewed as old or older with no real connection to the history and culture of the times.
Highly recommended, fun to read, and take his modern opinions with a grain of salt and enjoy and learn.
A non-european eye on Europe September 30, 2008
As being European myself, I expected from this book an independent eye and a reorganizing mind to describe European history and art. I was not deceived. A real overview with the right accents on 525 pages. I especially liked the timelines about each historical period, and the organization of monuments attached to art historical periods. Humour is also present: like hard rock and heavy metal to indicate stone and metal ages of prehistory.
Great book July 13, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
A must have whether or not your travel to Europe. If you do indeed go, read it before and during your trip. Other books are available; however, this one works really well and covers a wide swath or history - and thus interests.
Beautiful Book December 31, 2007
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
I thought that I would receive this book a little sooner than I did. It did arrive within the shipping time, but it was a Christmas gift for someone and I didn't receive it until the 29th. In any case, the book is absolutely gorgeous. The pages are glossy, it is well constructed and from what I briefly read and saw, quite informative and well organized. It also was a good price for what you get. Thanks!
Excellent resource September 12, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
If you plan to travel Europe this book is a must have, especially if you are interested in history and the museums. It gives tips on how to get tickets without standing in long lines and other tidbits a tourist would not know. I found it to be very time saving and helpful. It definitely will increase my enjoyment while I'm on vacation.
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