Moscow To and Fro

Moscow To and Fro

Glyn Williams

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Independent Publishing Network
Año de edición:
2026
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Memorias
ISBN:
9781806054718
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In the fifth installment of his Travel Diaries series, musician, teacher and historian Glyn Williams draws on his long association with Moscow and some of the adventures living there facilitated.The Baltic States are explored in the first part of the book, Hamburg and Copenhagen in the second before the reader walks the streets of the Russian capital alongside a guide who knows the city intimately and loves it dearly.This collection of journals is a unique insight into European and Muscovite life. Warm, witty and intensely personal, this book is a series of journeys along the road less traveled.

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