The Venetian Empire
A Sea Voyage
For six centuries the Republic of Venice was a maritime empire, its sovereign power extending throughout much of the eastern Mediterranean - an empire of coasts, islands and isolated fortresses by which, as Wordsworth wrote, the mercantile Venetians 'held the gorgeous east in fee'. Jan Morris reconstructs the whole of this glittering dominion in the form of a sea-voyage, travelling along the historic Venetian trade routes from Venice itself to Greece, Crete and Cyprus. It is a traveller's book, geographically arranged but wandering at will from the past to the present, evoking not only contemporary landscapes and sensations but also the chara…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-14-193802-8
- EAN: 9780141938028
- Produktnummer: 17834450
- Verlag: Penguin
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1990
- Seitenangabe: 208 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 3'105 KB
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Jan Morris
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