City-Pick Amsterdam
One of the guides in the city-pick series from Oxygen Books is devoted to Amsterdam, offering a picture of the city in more than eighty translated extracts by writers including Abdelkader Benali, Alain de Botton, Albert Camus, Doeschka Meijsing, Harry Mulisch, Ian McEwan, Geert Mak, Cees Nooteboom and Simon Schama. The pieces are grouped around themes such as old Amsterdam, the Second World War, tolerance, art and water. Translator Sam Garrett wrote the introduction and Heather Reyes and Victor Schiferli selected the extracts and edited the book. Translators who worked on the collection include Patricia Gosling, Susan Massotty, Jeannette K. Ringold, Paul Vincent, Laura Vroomen, Michele Hutchison, Adrienne Dixon, Brian Doyle and Barbara Fasting.
