Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 268 pages; Physical description. : 268 p. : ill. (some col. ), facsims. , maps, ports. (some col. ) ; 31cm. Notes: Includes index. Bibliography: p. 254-258. Subject: Italy - Civilization. Italian culture - to date Italian culture, - to 1980 -- Civilization -- Culture To 1980 -- Italy - History

The Italian World: History, Art and the Genius of a People (The Great Civilizations)

Norwich, John Julius, Editor

Portland House

Britain's heritage

<p>An exploration of the rich legacy of the past, examining topics such as Britain's cultural heritage, the Englishman's home, Royal Britain, leisure pursuits and Britain's political developments. It also demonstrates how man has shaped the primeval landscape and shows what efforts are being made to preserve our natural heritage for posterity</p>

Britain's Heritage

History

Europe

Continuum

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.

A Traveller's Companion to Venice

Travel

Robinson

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