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The World of Venice: Revised Edition

James Morris

A fascinating exploration of the history, sights, seasons, arts, food, and people of an incomparable city. "A highly intelligent portrait of an eccentric city, written in powerful prose and enlivened by many curious mosaics of information...a beautiful book to read and to possess" (The Observer). New Foreword by the Author. Index.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
  • Publish Date: May 12nd, 1995
  • Pages: 320
  • Language: English
  • Edition: Revised - undefined
  • Dimensions: 7.94in - 5.32in - 0.95in - 0.83lb
  • EAN: 9780156983563
  • Categories: • Europe - Italy• Europe - Italy• Essays & Travelogues

About the Author

Morris, Jan: - Jan Morris served as an intelligence officer with the 9th Queen's Royal Lancers, studied at Oxford University, and was a reporter for the Times and the Guardian before launching into a successful career as a novelist, history author, and travel writer. Her other books include Last Letters from Hav, Fifty Years of Europe, Conundrum, Hong Kong, Oxford, The World of Venice, and Farewell the Trumpets.