Bavaria

by Rodney Bolt

Captures the enormous variety of Germany from the unspoiled backwoods of the Black Forest to the rolling countryside of the Romantic Road. This title details breathtaking Bavarian castle visits and the best of the beer festivals.

264 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1999

About the author

Rodney Bolt was born in South Africa. He studied at Rhodes University and wrote the play Gandhi: Act Too, which won the 1980 Durban Critic's Circle Play of the Year award. That same year he won a scholarship to Cambridge and read English at Corpus Christi. He has twice won Travel Writer of the Year awards in Germany and is the author of History Play, an invented biography of Christopher Marlowe (HarperCollins, 2004) and The Librettist of Venice, a biography of Lorenzo Da Ponte (Bloomsbury, 2006), which was shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Award. He lives in Amsterdam.