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The Venetian Empire: A Sea Voyage

Door Jan Morris

Categorie
Geschiedenis Europa
Boeknummer
#340200-XG1
Titel
The Venetian Empire: A Sea Voyage
Auteur
Morris, Jan
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
London : Penguin
Jaar van uitgave
1990
ISBN10
0140119949
ISBN13
9780140119947
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Paperback, small maps, 8vo.
Samenvatting
For six centuries, the Republic of Venice was a maritime empire, its sovereign power extending throughout much of the eastern Mediterranean. This book 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.

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, C... (Lees verder)rete 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.
Pagina's
200
Conditie
Goed — Edges browned.
Prijs
€ 5,00

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