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Victoria Clark

    Victoria Clark
    Zu Tisch bei Diktatoren
    Why Angels Fall
    Yemen
    Dictators' Dinners
    Journey Through Southern Arizona
    A Journey Through Northern Arizona
    • 2014

      'Rarely, if ever, have the depths of human depravity and haute cuisine been so stylishly combined in a single book'

      Dictators' Dinners
    • 2010

      Yemen

      • 311 pages
      • 11 hours of reading
      3.7(229)Add rating

      Yemen is the dark horse of the Middle East. Untangling Yemen's history before examining the country's role in both al-Qaeda and the wider jihadist movement, this title presents an account of a little-known state whose chronic instability is increasingly engaging the general reader.

      Yemen
    • 2009

      Journey Through Southern Arizona

      • 126 pages
      • 5 hours of reading

      Discover how the quest for gold and silver in Southern Arizona created boom towns that attracted hard-living men and shady ladies. View the dusty streets of Tombstone where the Earp family fought the Clantons. Discover dude ranches where famous people dressed like their favourite movie-star cowboys and cowgirls, and enjoy humorous postcards made for early tourists. Follow the development of historic Tucson from adobe barrios to the modern-day city where Arizona s first university was built. Look inside the Yuma Territorial Prison (known as the Hell Hole ) where prisoners endured temperatures over 120 degrees and escape was unknown. Take a journey back into time as 295 colour images tell Southern Arizona's early history.

      Journey Through Southern Arizona
    • 2008

      A Journey Through Northern Arizona

      • 128 pages
      • 5 hours of reading

      The book offers a captivating virtual tour of Northern Arizona through over 300 postcards, showcasing iconic sites such as the Grand Canyon, Painted Desert, and Petrified Forest. It delves into the region's rich history, including the early Fred Harvey Hotels and the charm of Route 66 towns. Additionally, it highlights the culture and heritage of Northern Arizona's Native American communities. This resource is not only visually appealing but also serves as a valuable guide for postcard collectors.

      A Journey Through Northern Arizona
    • 2001

      Why Angels Fall

      A Journey Through Orthodox Europe from Byzantium to Kosovo

      • 480 pages
      • 17 hours of reading

      'Compelling, powerful, magnificent' - "The Times". In revealing encounters with monks, nuns, bishops and archbishops, in monasteries ancient and modern Victoria Clark measures the depth and width of the gulf now separating Europe's Orthodox East from the Catholic and Protestant West. Many of the differences in outlook, priorities and even values can be traced back to the 1054 schism between the churches of Rome and Constantinople which created Europe's most durable fault-line. Travelling from Mount Athos to Istanbul and unravelling the tangled history, Victoria Clark demonstrates a rare sympathy with Eastern Orthodox Europe. 'I finished the book wanting to meet this intelligent, warm-hearted writer, and to follow her to some of the places she visited' - "Literary Review". 'A masterful synthesis of vivid and often humorous travel writing, a series of probing interviews and a pertinent historical context' - "The Times". 'Exhilarating ...her book will be immensely helpful to anyone occasionally puzzled by events, especially politics, in Eastern Europe.' - "Financial Times".

      Why Angels Fall