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Leads us through the history of the Venice city, from the first refugees arriving in the mists of the lagoon in the fourth century to the rise of a great mercantile state and a trading empire, the wars against Napoleon and the tourist invasions of today.
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`Ackroyd takes an erudite and entertaining look at the city of doges, gondolas, carnival masks and canals' --Marie Claire
`Combative, omnivorous and beady-eyed as ever' --The Spectator
'...Ackroyd is acute...' --The Sunday Times
"Highly evocative...he writes beautifully and succinctly". --Saturday Times
"Ackroyd's fans will love his vision of this glorious city" --Books Quarterly
"Ackroyd has managed... to give us a beautifully crafted, ruminative, well-illustrated, and utterly readable volume". --History Today
"opulent, shimmering prose" --The Times
'elegant and erudite' --Tatler
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`Combative, omnivorous and beady-eyed as ever' --The Spectator
'...Ackroyd is acute...' --The Sunday Times
"Highly evocative...he writes beautifully and succinctly". --Saturday Times
"Ackroyd's fans will love his vision of this glorious city" --Books Quarterly
"Ackroyd has managed... to give us a beautifully crafted, ruminative, well-illustrated, and utterly readable volume". --History Today
"opulent, shimmering prose" --The Times
'elegant and erudite' --Tatler
Peter Ackroyd at his most magical and magisterial - a glittering, evocative, fascinating, story-filled portrait of Venice: ultimate city.
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- PublisherChatto & Windus
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 0701172851
- ISBN 13 9780701172855
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages416
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. This copy is in new, unmarked condition bound in grey cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. The unclipped dust wrapper is in new condition. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. In this sumptuous vision of Venice, Peter Ackroyd turns his unparalleled skill for evoking a sense of place from London and the River Thames to Venice, the city of myth, mystery and beauty, set like a jewel in its glistening lagoon. Ackroyd's Venice is at once romantic and packed with detail, conjuring up the atmosphere of the canals, bridges and sunlit squares, the churches and the markets, the fiestas and the flowers. He leads us through the fascinating, story-filled history of the city, from the first refugees arriving in the mists of the lagoon in the fourth century, to the rise of a great mercantile state and trading empire, the wars against Napoleon and the tourist invasions of today. Everything is here: the merchants on the Rialto and the Jews in the ghetto; the mosaics of St. Marks and the glass blowers of Murano; the carnival masks and the sad colonies of lepers; the doges and the destitute. And of course, the artists Bellini, Titian, Tintoretto, Tiepolo, with their passion for colour and form. There are wars and sieges, scandals and seductions, fountains playing in deserted squares and crowds thronging the markets. And there is a dark undertone too, of shadowy corners and dead ends, prisons and punishment. We could have no better guide to Venice than Peter Ackroyd whose book is, itself, a glorious journey and the perfect holiday. Ref PPP 4. Seller Inventory # 029569
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