Victoria Clark Bücher

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.

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.

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

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.

'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".

Kniha o gastronomických zvykoch a zlozvykoch diktátorov 20. storočia je jedinečná svojou témou, spracovaním aj obsahom. Autorky Victoria Clarková a Melissa Scottová netradičným spôsobom mapujú nielen život a výčiny diktátorov, ale servírujú čitateľom aj šťavnaté historky zo zákulisia ich stravovania a stolovania. Kulinárske defilé 25 despotov novodobej svetovej histórie, medzi ktorými nechýbajú známe mená, ako Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Francisco Franco či Nikolae Ceauşescu, ale ani tie exotickejšie, ugandský diktátor Idi Amin, etiópsky tyran Mengistu Haile Mariam, kambodžský netvor Pol Pot a iní, sa začína príbehom masového vraha Josifa Visarionoviča Stalina s jeho celonočnými opileckými orgiami. Rozlúčkovú večeru – chýrnu korytnačiu polievku – na záver servíruje vodca jediného marxisticko-leninského štátu na západnej pologuli Fidel Castro, pre ktorého jedlo a nápoje boli najväčšou vášňou. Všetky príbehy krutovládcov sú okorenené pikantnými intímnosťami z ich života, autorky otvárajú aj tabuizované témy súvisiace so zažívaním, plynatosťou, obžerstvom, obscénnosťami rôzneho druhu, odhaľujú utajované neduhy týchto mužov, ich patologické obavy z otravy či celkom zvrátené chúťky v tej najbeštiálnejšej podobe – kanibalizme. Bonusom na konci každého príbehu je recept na obľúbené jedlo príslušného diktátora s bohatou fotodokumentáciou.