Riviera (ePub)
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The Riviera has inspired countless novelists and artists, attracted as much by its visitors as by its location (Somerset Maugham called it 'a sunny place for shady people'). But for the majority of the English, the Riviera was made famous by rumour and report: it was the scene of the romance of Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson; and, post-war, became the vacation spot of Hollywood starlets.
But the C¿te d'Azur has a long history of attracting foreign celebrities and royalty, since the seventeenth century, when it was a stopping point on the route south for aristocratic Grand Tourists. Later, English and Scottish invalids, among them Robert Louis Stevenson, followed doctors' orders and holidayed on the Riviera for their health. Jim Ring explores these origins and the developments that took place on the coast - the impact of rail travel, of war, of celebrity and of the English.
'An entertaining survey . . . It is the ideal book to hide your smirk behind on the Promenade des Anglais as yet another roller-blading granny glides past in a leopard-sking thong.' Sunday Telegraph
Jim Ring's Riviera corrals an array of vignettes of the C¿te d'Azur's most famous habitu¿s from the Romans to the Rolling Stones . . . a stylish and pleasingly gossipy overview of the region's fluctuating fortunes.' Time Out
'A highly readable history.' Guardian
- Autor: Jim Ring
- 2011, Main, 288 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Faber And Faber Ltd.
- ISBN-10: 0571277470
- ISBN-13: 9780571277476
- Erscheinungsdatum: 21.04.2011
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