Back Door to Byzantium: To the Black Sea by the Great Rivers of Europe
- ISBN-10
- 1574090437
- ISBN-13
- 9781574090437
- Category
- Travel
- Pages
- 239
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1997
- Publisher
- Sheridan House, Inc.
- Authors
- Bill Cooper, Laurel Cooper
Description
This eagerly awaited conclusion to the Watersteps trilogy is the story of the Cooper's voyage from the North Sea, across flooded France, down the Rhine and on the Danube to the Black Sea.
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