The Edge of the World : A Cultural History of the North Sea and the Transformation of Europe (Paperback)

from SheTreadsSoftly

The Edge of the World: A Cultural History of the North Sea and the Transformation of Europe by Michael Pye is a highly recommended well researched presentation of the impact North Sea travel had during the dark ages and how it lead to modern Western civilization. Pye does an exceptional job of ma...

from Lunarreader

A cracking history book on (like the subtitle) How the North Sea shaped us. The author illuminates a series of inventions done in the North of Europe during the so called "dark" Middle Ages. In fact, these Middle Ages was not that "dark" a period but it was overshadowed by the Renaissance that ca...

from nbmars

Michael Pye is an English journalist who thinks the Mediterranean Sea has gotten too much attention in various histories of Europe. He wants to move the center of gravity of European history northward, to the North Sea to be precise. Pye's view of Europe from 700 to 1700 differs from what most of...

from EmreSevinc

The "hansa" in "Lufthansa" will never be the same for you after you finish this book. That's a fact. The author takes the reader on a fantastic time travel throughout the history of north Europe, and even tough some initial parts of the book felt very "jumpy" to me, with abrupt changes from one t...

from agingcow2345

Its more a collection of vignettes, mini-essays and factoids than a formal history. It reads well but its more bathroom reading than a serious book. I quite enjoyed it but know what you are buying. I also think a shorter time span [it runs from late antiquity into the 17th century and ranges FAR ...