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Find more info., search and price compare for A Traveller's Companion to Venice (The Traveller's Companion Series) by Binding: Paperback, illustrated edition edition, 432 pages Publisher: Interlink Books Weight: 0.93 pound Dimension: H: 1.1 x L: 7.7 x W: 5.1 inches ISBN 10: 1566564654 ISBN 13: 9781566564656 Click here to search for this book and compare price at 40+ bookstores with AddALL.com! If you cannot find this book in our new and in print search, be sure to try our used and out of print search too! |
Book Description: Reactions to Venice have been, throughout the ages, astonishingly different. Henry James wrote passionately: 'You desire to embrace it, to caress it, to possess it...' whereas Mark Twain found St. Mark's 'so ugly...Propped on its long row of thick legged columns, its back knobbed with domes, it seem like a vast, warty bug taking a medieval walk.' In this dazzling anthology, James and Twain along with the writings of Byron, Goethe, Wagner, Casanova, Jan Morris, Robert Browning, and Horace Walpole, among many others, are all featured. Ranging from the days of the sixth century, when the early lagoon dwellers lived 'like sea birds, in huts built on heaps of osiers' to the exquisite city of eighteenth century revelers and nineteenth century art lovers the city's many different guises are revealed as its inhabitants and visitors saw them. This favorite volume from the Traveller's Companion series also contains maps, engravings, and notes on history, art and architecture, and everyday city life. Highly entertaining and informative. |
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