Venice: A Traveller'S Reader [Audiobook] download free by John Julius Norwich
- Listen audiobook: Venice: A Traveller'S Reader
- Author: John Julius Norwich
- Release date: 2017/5/26
- Publisher: LITTLE, BROWN BOOK GROUP
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Travel and Holiday Guides
- ISBN: 9781472140302
- Rating: 8 of 10
- Votes: 719
- Review by: Nikolai Armstrong
- Review rating: 9.06 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/5
- Duration: 5H27M40S in 256 kbps (86.4 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-03
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MP3, MPC, WAV, WMA, MPEG4, AAC, FLAC (compression LZ, RAR, ZIP, CPIO, XZ, RPM)
- Total pages original book: 432
- Includes a PDF summary of 34 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 26M30S (6.8 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: Henry James wrote of Venice: '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 meditative walk'. Reactions to Venice have been, throughout the ages, astonishingly different. John Julius Norwich has put together a dazzling anthology, drawing on the writings of Byron, Goethe, Wagner, Casanova, Jan Morris, Robert Browning and Horace Walpole, among many others. The pieces range from 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 revellers and nineteenth-century art lovers. The city's many diferent guises are shown as both its citizens and visitors saw them. This wonderful volume from the Traveller's Reader series also contains maps, engravings and notes on history, art, architecture and everyday city life.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Travel & Holiday Guides, Guidebooks, Travel Writing
- Download servers: Torrent, Data File Host, Uploaded, Mediafire, BitShare, Microsoft OneDrive, Racaty. Compressed in LZ, RAR, ZIP, CPIO, XZ, RPM
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 9.19 USD
- Dimensions: 151x197x31mm
- Weight: 385.55g
- Printed by: Robinson
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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