Author: Random House
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780099817420
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Travellers Companion to Venice Usa
Author: Random House
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780099817420
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Publisher:
ISBN: 9780099817420
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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A Traveller's Companion to Venice
Author: John Julius Norwich
Publisher: Interlink Books
ISBN: 9781566564656
Category : Historic buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Ranging from the days of the 6th century--when the early lagoon-dwellers lived "like sea-birds, in huts built on heaps of osiers" to the exquisite city of 18th-century revelers and 19th-century art lovers--the city's many different guises are revealed as its visitors saw them.
Publisher: Interlink Books
ISBN: 9781566564656
Category : Historic buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Ranging from the days of the 6th century--when the early lagoon-dwellers lived "like sea-birds, in huts built on heaps of osiers" to the exquisite city of 18th-century revelers and 19th-century art lovers--the city's many different guises are revealed as its visitors saw them.
A Traveller's Companion to Venice
Author: John Julius Norwich
Publisher: Constable
ISBN: 9781841195315
Category : Venice (Italy)
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
Views of the city of lagoons and gondolas; Henry James was passionate: '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 seems like a vast, warty bug taking a mediaeval walk.' Reactions to Venice have been, throughout the ages, astonishingly different. John Julius Norwich has produced a dazzling anthology from the writings of Byron, Goethe, Wagner, Casanova, Jan Morris, Robert Browning, and Horace Walpole, among many others. From the days of the sixth century, when lagoon-dwellers lived 'like sea-birds' in huts built on heaps of osiers, to the Venice of eighteenth-century revellers and nineteenth-century art lovers - the city's many different guises are all portrayed as its inhabitants and visitors saw them.
Publisher: Constable
ISBN: 9781841195315
Category : Venice (Italy)
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
Views of the city of lagoons and gondolas; Henry James was passionate: '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 seems like a vast, warty bug taking a mediaeval walk.' Reactions to Venice have been, throughout the ages, astonishingly different. John Julius Norwich has produced a dazzling anthology from the writings of Byron, Goethe, Wagner, Casanova, Jan Morris, Robert Browning, and Horace Walpole, among many others. From the days of the sixth century, when lagoon-dwellers lived 'like sea-birds' in huts built on heaps of osiers, to the Venice of eighteenth-century revellers and nineteenth-century art lovers - the city's many different guises are all portrayed as its inhabitants and visitors saw them.
Venice
Author: John Julius Norwich
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Venice (Italy)
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Venice (Italy)
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Travellers Companion to Venice Uk
Author: Random House
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780099817192
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Publisher:
ISBN: 9780099817192
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Venice Lido
Author: Robin Saikia
Publisher: Travel Monograph
ISBN: 9781905131501
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A short and literary guide to Venice's Lido, in the Blue Guides' new Travel Monographs series.
Publisher: Travel Monograph
ISBN: 9781905131501
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A short and literary guide to Venice's Lido, in the Blue Guides' new Travel Monographs series.
Travelling Companions
Author: Henry James
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The Companion Guide to Venice
Author: Hugh Honour
Publisher: Companion Guides
ISBN: 9781900639248
Category : Venice (Italy)
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
`It offers all that the visitor with a concern for beauty and for leisurely sight-seeing will require.' Financial Times`If ever a guidebook were designed to be read as literature it is Mr Honour's. Even those who know Venice welland love it well will add to their appreciation from this seemingly endless store of information.' Economist Offers all that the visitor with a concern for beauty and for leisurely sight-seeing will require. FINANCIAL TIMES The best guide book I have ever encountered... and a book I found it impossible not to read from beginning to end. OBSERVER There are few pleasanter ways of passing a summer's evening than sitting over a cup of coffee, and perhaps a glass of Aurum, in the Piazza San Marco. It is especially agreeable on those nights when the Venetian city band thunders away at some throbbingly romantic piece... And all the while the younger inhabitants parade around the square, chattering, flirting, quarrelling and staring at their visitors with that same unwinking gaze that Venetians have turned on their guests for the past five centuries. The facade of San Marco closes the scene in a glitter of golden mosaic and a bubbling of cupolas, while the great thick red campanile stretches up into the warm mothy darkness of the summer sky. Hugh Honour, it is clear, knows Venice exceptionally well and catches the rhythms of the city's life with unerring skill. His guide, with its winning blend of evocativedetail and precise information, spurs the reader to investigate Venice's wonders: Piazza San Marco is only the beginning of a journey into the heart of Venice and its history.
Publisher: Companion Guides
ISBN: 9781900639248
Category : Venice (Italy)
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
`It offers all that the visitor with a concern for beauty and for leisurely sight-seeing will require.' Financial Times`If ever a guidebook were designed to be read as literature it is Mr Honour's. Even those who know Venice welland love it well will add to their appreciation from this seemingly endless store of information.' Economist Offers all that the visitor with a concern for beauty and for leisurely sight-seeing will require. FINANCIAL TIMES The best guide book I have ever encountered... and a book I found it impossible not to read from beginning to end. OBSERVER There are few pleasanter ways of passing a summer's evening than sitting over a cup of coffee, and perhaps a glass of Aurum, in the Piazza San Marco. It is especially agreeable on those nights when the Venetian city band thunders away at some throbbingly romantic piece... And all the while the younger inhabitants parade around the square, chattering, flirting, quarrelling and staring at their visitors with that same unwinking gaze that Venetians have turned on their guests for the past five centuries. The facade of San Marco closes the scene in a glitter of golden mosaic and a bubbling of cupolas, while the great thick red campanile stretches up into the warm mothy darkness of the summer sky. Hugh Honour, it is clear, knows Venice exceptionally well and catches the rhythms of the city's life with unerring skill. His guide, with its winning blend of evocativedetail and precise information, spurs the reader to investigate Venice's wonders: Piazza San Marco is only the beginning of a journey into the heart of Venice and its history.
A Traveller's History of Venice. Peter Mentzel
Author: Peter Mentzel
Publisher: Haus Pub.
ISBN: 9781907973116
Category : Venice (Italy)
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
This text presents a concise overview of the history of Venice from the fifth century AD to the present day. The main theme is the unique place that Venice has occupied in the history of Europe in general and in Italy in particular.
Publisher: Haus Pub.
ISBN: 9781907973116
Category : Venice (Italy)
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
This text presents a concise overview of the history of Venice from the fifth century AD to the present day. The main theme is the unique place that Venice has occupied in the history of Europe in general and in Italy in particular.
The Rough Guide to Venice & the Veneto
Author: Jonathan Buckley
Publisher: Rough Guides
ISBN: 9781843533023
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
The Rough Guide to Venice and the Veneto is the definitive handbook to Europe''s most beautiful city and its hinterland. The guide includes detailed accounts of all Venice''s monuments and museums, from San Marco to the far-flung islands. There is vivid background on the city''s history and culture, with the lowdown on the Biennale, Carnevale and other special events. For every area, there are comprehensive reviews of restaurants, bars and accommodation in every price range. Finally, there is detailed coverage of Verona, Padua, Vicenza, Treviso and a host of other Veneto towns and sights.
Publisher: Rough Guides
ISBN: 9781843533023
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
The Rough Guide to Venice and the Veneto is the definitive handbook to Europe''s most beautiful city and its hinterland. The guide includes detailed accounts of all Venice''s monuments and museums, from San Marco to the far-flung islands. There is vivid background on the city''s history and culture, with the lowdown on the Biennale, Carnevale and other special events. For every area, there are comprehensive reviews of restaurants, bars and accommodation in every price range. Finally, there is detailed coverage of Verona, Padua, Vicenza, Treviso and a host of other Veneto towns and sights.