France: An Adventure History

<p><b>A SPECTATOR and PROSPECT Book of the Year<br><br>'Ceaselessly interesting, knowledgeable and evocative' </b><i>Spectator</i><br><b>'A fresh way to write history' </b>Alan Johnson<br><b>'A quirky, amused, erudite homage to France . . . ambitious and original' </b><i>The Times</i><br>_____<br><br><i>France: An Adventure History</i> is a profoundly original and endlessly entertaining history of France, from the first century BC to the present day, based on countless new discoveries and thirty years of exploring France on foot, by bicycle and in the library.<br><br>Beginning with the Roman army&rsquo;s first recorded encounter with the Gauls and ending with the Gilets Jaunes protests in the era of Emmanuel Macron, each chapter is an adventure in its own right. Along the way, readers will find the usual faces, events and themes