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Part history podcast, part travel guide, always a great story. A Book - A Place: Geneva takes you to unexpected places in an often city that has a unique place...
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Part history podcast, part travel guide, always a great story.
A Book - A Place: Geneva takes you to unexpected places in an often city that has a unique place in history.
Frankenstein and comic books were born here. Revolutionaries plotted. An enlightenment superstar had good reason to have houses in and just outside Geneva. And science fiction fans became real scientists at the home of the world's greatest science experiment here.
Whether you're a visitor, a newcomer, or a long-time resident, this podcast will take you to corners of the city where history was (and is still being) made.
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A Book - A Place: Geneva takes you to unexpected places in an often city that has a unique place in history.
Frankenstein and comic books were born here. Revolutionaries plotted. An enlightenment superstar had good reason to have houses in and just outside Geneva. And science fiction fans became real scientists at the home of the world's greatest science experiment here.
Whether you're a visitor, a newcomer, or a long-time resident, this podcast will take you to corners of the city where history was (and is still being) made.
A Book - A Place: Geneva
A Book - A Place: Geneva
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26 JUN 2024 · COMING SOON on https://abookaplace.com Comic books, or graphic novels, have been around for, what? A century? Perhaps more? Where did they spring from? The America of the superheroes? The Belgium of Tintin, perhaps? What about Japan, that gave us manga and animé? Long before any of those, almost two centuries ago, a Genevan teacher and writer with failing eyesight and frustrated ambitions as a painter, created and published most historians of the genre now consider the first ever comic strip. Loved by perhaps the greatest writer of the day, Goethe, and read and pirated all over Europe, Rodolphe Toepffer's work is now far less well known than it should be. On this episode of A Book - A Place: Geneva we go in search of the real inventor of comic books. Part history podcast, part bookclub, part travel guide, A Book - A Place: Geneva looks at the stories behind the stories Available on your podcast app and at http://abookaplace.com -
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25 JUN 2024 · The stories that made the place – The place that made the stories Frankenstein was written here, Lenin studied revolution in the Old Town, and in this city the comic strip was born – 200 years ago.Part history podcast, part travel guide, ‘A Book – A Place’ brings you the surprising places and stories that changed Geneva and the world.
Part history podcast, part travel guide, always a great story. A Book - A Place: Geneva takes you to unexpected places in an often city that has a unique place...
show more
Part history podcast, part travel guide, always a great story.
A Book - A Place: Geneva takes you to unexpected places in an often city that has a unique place in history.
Frankenstein and comic books were born here. Revolutionaries plotted. An enlightenment superstar had good reason to have houses in and just outside Geneva. And science fiction fans became real scientists at the home of the world's greatest science experiment here.
Whether you're a visitor, a newcomer, or a long-time resident, this podcast will take you to corners of the city where history was (and is still being) made.
show less
A Book - A Place: Geneva takes you to unexpected places in an often city that has a unique place in history.
Frankenstein and comic books were born here. Revolutionaries plotted. An enlightenment superstar had good reason to have houses in and just outside Geneva. And science fiction fans became real scientists at the home of the world's greatest science experiment here.
Whether you're a visitor, a newcomer, or a long-time resident, this podcast will take you to corners of the city where history was (and is still being) made.
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| Author | Robin Pomeroy |
| Categories | History , Books , Places & Travel |
| Website | abookaplace.com |
| contact@abookaplace.com |
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