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050	0	0	_aD57 _b.D28 1996
082	1		_a940 _2 DAV
100	1		_aDavies, Norman _d(1939 -)
245	1	0	_aEurope : _ba history _c/ Norman Davies.
260			_aOxford _a ; New York _b: Oxford University Press _c, 1996.
300			_a1365 p. _b: illus. _c; 24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [1137]-1172) and index.
520	3		_a"In the beginning," writes Norman Davies, "there was no Europe. All there was, for five million years, was a long, sinuous peninsula with no name, set like the figurehead of a ship on the prow of the world's largest land mass. To the west lay the ocean which no one had crossed. To the south lay two enclosed and interlinked seas, sprinkled with islands, inlets, and peninsulas of their own. To the north lay the great polar icecap, expanding and contracting across the ages like some monstrous, freezing jellyfish. To the east lay the land-bridge to the rest of the world, whence all peoples and all civilizations were to come." So begins Davies's magisterial Europe, a master work of history that stretches from the Ice Age to the Atomic Age, as it tells the story of Europe, East and West, from prehistory to the present day.
546			_aEnglish
651		4	_aEurope _x-History
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