De verdwenen piano’s van Siberië van Sophy Roberts is een prachtig cultuurhistorisch reisboek voor de lezers van De zijderoutes van Peter Frankopan.  Meer

In 1879 - zes jaar voordat hij Congo in handen zou krijgen - lanceert koning Leopold II van België een even ambitieus als absurd plan om de rijkdommen van Afrika te plunderen.  Meer

That they might be capable of making music in such a hostile landscape feels like a miracle. The Lost Pianos of Siberia is an absorbing story about a piano hunt - a quixotic quest through two centuries of Russian history and eight time zones stretching across an eleventh of the world's land surface.  Meer

Sophia Jex-Blake led the campaign that won for British women the right to enter the medical profession. Before taking up this cause she had studied women's education in England, Germany and the United states, and rejected the popular contemporary view that higher education would be wasted on women.  Meer

Sophia Jex-Blake led the campaign that won for British women the right to enter the medical profession. Before taking up this cause she had studied women's education in England, Germany and the United states, and rejected the popular contemporary view that higher education would be wasted on women.  Meer

A survey of the teachings associated with the feminine principle of Sophia in Christianity's mystical past.  Meer