A delightful journey through time and through the streets of one of the greatest cultural capitals in Europe.
Geert Mak is a jounalist and historian, and one of Holland's
bestselling writers; he is author of the prize-winning In Europe
and An Island in Time.
Philip Blom was born in Hamburg in 1970 and now works in London as
a journalist, novelist and translator.
Lovers of Amsterdam will revel in the exhaustive reconstruction of
everyday life in the medieval city
*Independent on Sunday*
A strong sense of irony and a lively prose style make Geert Mak's
Amsterdam one of the most unusual and engaging 'city books' I have
read this year
*Sunday Times*
Mak's brief is... to bring Amsterdam into the modern age. This he
does with wit and style. But his real achievement... is to make
accessible unfussily - and unsentimentally - one of Europe's most
astonishing urban success stories
*Financial Times*
This excellent book is more than essential
*Irvine Welsh*
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