Duncan J. D. Smith - Urban Explorer, Travel Writer, Historian, Photographer

Summary:

• A comprehensive illustrated guide to more than 80 fascinating and unusual historical sights in Germany‘s most historic city

• Religious relics, forgotten fortresses, unexpected sanctuaries, abandoned cemeteries, and little-known museums

• From Colonia Agrippinensis and the French occupation to the Kingdom of Prussia and the Third Reich

• Napoleon’s cemetery, a road beneath the Rhine, the city lighthouse, and where the Red Baron learned to fly

• The bones of Saint Ursula, the inventor Konrad Adenauer, bad boy Martin Kippenberger, and the legend of Bishop Maternus

• Recommended for visitors to Cologne wishing to discover something a little different, as well as for inhabitants who perhaps thought they already knew the city

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Featured Reviews:

Dr. Klaus Hardering, Cologne Cathedral
Your really wonderful book...I‘m enjoying it very much.

A. Michael Marx, USA
I’m really enjoying your book and admire your unique approach. As you might imagine, it makes me want to get back to Cologne. I went straight to the section on the ‘Stolpersteine’ (Chapter 4). Thank you so much for including the story of my father and my grandfather. It’s quite an honor to their memories and I appreciate it.

The Star (05.01.2011)
The Diary: Check out the sewers!

Hidden Europe magazine (Issue 26, May-June 2009)
In a world where places seem to become ever more similar, it was an absolute joy to stumble on the "Only in..." series of guidebooks written by Duncan J. D. Smith. Each guide identifies 84 distinctive sights within a particular city. Duncan Smith brings to the "Only in..." series the gaze of the enquiring outsider. His approach to places and history appeals to us a lot. The ‘Only in...‘ series is a refreshing antidote to the prevailing tide of uniformity favoured by too many travel guides.

Cologne Calling, Writers & Photographers unLimited Media News Bulletin 28 (August 2010)

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