The Venetian Empire: A Sea Voyage [Idioma Inglés] - Tapa blanda

Morris, Jan

 
9780140119947: The Venetian Empire: A Sea Voyage [Idioma Inglés]
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ISBN 10: 0140119949 ISBN 13: 9780140119947
Editorial: Penguin, 1990

Sinopsis

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 characters, the emotions and the tumultuous events of the past. The first such work ever written about the Venetian ‘Stato da Mar’, it is an invaluable historical companion for visitors to Venice itself and for travellers through the lands the Doges once ruled.

. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

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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 characters, the emotions and the tumultuous events of the past. The first such work ever written about the Venetian ‘Stato da Mar’, it is an invaluable historical companion for visitors to Venice itself and for travellers through the lands the Doges once ruled.

. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

"Sobre este título" puede pertenecer a otra edición de este libro.

Editorial
Penguin
Año de publicación
1990
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0140119949
ISBN 13 
9780140119947
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
208
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