Venice, A Travellers Companion
A Traveller's Reader
$44.17
- Paperback
432 pages
- Release Date
12 September 2017
Summary
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 Brow…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781472140302 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1472140303 |
| Author: | John Julius Norwich |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Robinson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Release Date: | 12 September 2017 |
| Weight: | 370g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 129mm x 28mm |
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A brilliant historical anthology … which I read from cover to cover, relishing the author’s witty selection of writings.– Spectator
A brilliant historical anthology … which I read from cover to cover, relishing the author’s witty selection of writings. - Spectator
Another excellent volume in the Traveller’s Reader series. - TimesAbout The Author
John Julius Norwich
John Julius, 2nd Viscount Norwich, was born on 15 September 1929, the son of the statesman and diplomat Alfred Duff Cooper (1st Viscount) and the Lady Diana Cooper. He was educated at Upper Canada College, Toronto, at Eton, at the University of Strasbourg and on the lower deck of the Royal Navy before taking a degree in French and Russian at New College, Oxford. He then spent twelve years in H.M. Foreign Service, with posts at the Embassies in Belgrade and Beirut and at the Disarmament Conference in Geneva. In 1964 he resigned to become a writer.
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