John Julius Norwich

Sicily

A Short History, from the Greeks to Cosa Nostra

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A colourful and lavishly illustrated history (fifty years in the making) of the Mediterranean's largest and most turbulent island from much-loved historian John Julius Norwich. Taking in the key buildings and towns, and packed with fascinating stories and unforgettable characters, Sicily is the book he was born to write.

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Duncan, Paul

ISBN: 978-1-84854-897-8
EAN: 9781848548978
Produktnummer: 19533974
Verlag: Hodder & Stoughton
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Seitenangabe: 384 S.
Ausstattung: B-Format Paperback
Masse: H19.8 cm x B12.8 cm x D2.5 cm 293 g
Gewicht: 293

Über den Autor

John Julius Norwich was born in 1929. After National Service, he took a degree in French and Russian at New College, Oxford. In 1952 he joined the Foreign Service, serving at the embassies in Belgrade and Beirut and with the British Delegation to the Disarmament Conference at Geneva. His publications include The Normans in Sicily; Mount Athos (with Reresby Sitwell); Sahara; The Architecture of Southern England; Glyndebourne; and A History of Venice. He is also the author of a three-volume history of the Byzantine Empire. He has written and presented some thirty historical documentaries for television, and is a regular lecturer on Venice and numerous other subjects.Lord Norwich is former chairman of the Venice in Peril Fund, co-chairman of the World Monuments Fund and a former member of the Executive Committee of the National Trust. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the Royal Geographical Society and the Society of Antiquaries, and a Commendatore of the Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana. He was made a CVO in 1993.