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Author: Judith Martin Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 0393078647 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 331
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"Add No Vulgar Hotel to the list of books you must read before you come to Venice." —Donna Leon This is the definitive book for managing an incurable passion for a decaying, waterlogged village. Whether you already have a raging case of Venetophilia or are among the fifteen million people who yearly put themselves in danger of contracting it, here is where you get your fix of Venetian wit, history, practicality, and enchantment.
Author: R. J. B. Bosworth Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300193874 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 353
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In this elegant book Richard Bosworth explores Venice—not the glorious Venice of the Venetian Republic, but from the fall of the Republic in 1797 and the Risorgimento up through the present day. Bosworth looks at the glamour and squalor of the belle époque and the dark underbelly of modernization, the two world wars, and the far-reaching oppressions of the fascist regime, through to the “Disneylandification” of Venice and the tourist boom, the worldwide attention of the biennale and film festival, and current threats of subsidence and flooding posed by global warming. He draws out major themes—the increasingly anachronistic but deeply embedded Catholic Church, the two faces of modernization, consumerism versus culture. Bosworth interrogates not just Venice’s history but its meanings, and how the city’s past has been co-opted to suit present and sometimes ulterior aims. Venice, he shows, is a city where its histories as well as its waters ripple on the surface.
Author: Salvatore Settis Publisher: House of Anansi ISBN: 1487001576 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 151
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In the tradition of Jane Jacobs’ The Death and Life of Great American Cities comes an urgent plea from internationally renowned art historian Salvatore Settis to preserve Venice’s future. What is Venice worth? To whom does this urban treasure belong? Venetians are increasingly abandoning their hometown — there’s now only one resident for every 140 visitors — and Venice’s fragile fate has become emblematic of the future of historic cities everywhere as it capitulates to tourists and those who profit from them. In If Venice Dies, a fiery blend of history and cultural analysis, internationally renowned art historian Savatore Settis argues that “hit-and-run” visitors are turning landmark urban settings into shopping malls and theme parks. He warns that Western civilization’s prime achievements face impending ruin from mass tourism and global cultural homogenization. This is a passionate plea to secure Venice’s future, written with consummate authority, wide-ranging erudition, and élan.
Author: Nancy Pearl Publisher: Sasquatch Books ISBN: 1570617015 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 322
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Adventure is just a book away as bestselling author Nancy Pearl returns with recommended reading for more than 120 destinations — both worldly and imagined — around the globe. From Las Vegas to the Land of Oz, Naples to Nigeria, Philadelphia to Provence, Nancy Pearl guides readers to the very best fiction and nonfiction to read about each destination. Even within one country, she traverses decades to suggest titles that effortlessly capture the different eras that make up a region’s unique history. This enthusiastic literary globetrotting guide includes stops in Korea, Sweden, Afghanistan, Albania, Parma, Patagonia, Texas, and Timbuktu. Book Lust To Go connects the best fiction and nonfiction to particular destinations, whether your bags are packed or your armchair is calling. From fiction to memoir, poetry to history, Nancy Pearl’s Book Lust to Go takes the reader on a globetrotting adventure — no passport required.
Author: Robert Burgin Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA ISBN: 161069385X Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 605
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Successfully navigate the rich world of travel narratives and identify fiction and nonfiction read-alikes with this detailed and expertly constructed guide. Just as savvy travelers make use of guidebooks to help navigate the hundreds of countries around the globe, smart librarians need a guidebook that makes sense of the world of travel narratives. Going Places: A Reader's Guide to Travel Narratives meets that demand, helping librarians assist patrons in finding the nonfiction books that most interest them. It will also serve to help users better understand the genre and their own reading interests. The book examines the subgenres of the travel narrative genre in its seven chapters, categorizing and describing approximately 600 titles according to genres and broad reading interests, and identifying hundreds of other fiction and nonfiction titles as read-alikes and related reads by shared key topics. The author has also identified award-winning titles and spotlighted further resources on travel lit, making this work an ideal guide for readers' advisors as well a book general readers will enjoy browsing.
Author: Ian J. Bickerton Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 303136421X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 354
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It is almost impossible to imagine the United States without making reference to Italy. There is scarcely any aspect of American culture untouched by Italy—its history, art, architecture, fashion, film, music, the mafia, or even more viscerally its food. Italy occupies a space of near mythical proportion in the American imagination. When many Americans think of, or dream about and imagine, the good life, how and where they would like to live, they think most often of Italy; the beauty, the life-style, the romance, the excitement and sense of adventure that Italy offers. By looking at the fluid and multi-dimensional imaginative interactions Americans have with Italian culture and society, this comprehensive and robust volume offers a new and novel way of exploring the influence of Italy upon the United States. University of New South Wales historian Ian James Bickerton argues that if we wish to understand the United States, and how Americans define themselves and their nation, it is vital to examine how they imagine themselves, and he demonstrates that throughout U.S. history one of the most powerful stimulants shaping the imaginary world of Americans has been Italy.
Author: Tom Brass Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004520740 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 307
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Examined here is political discourse about the pattern and desirability of economic development, extending from historical and contemporary views about race, culture, and labour regimes, to how the same themes inform travel writing.
Author: Madeline Martin Publisher: Harlequin ISBN: 0369711750 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 722
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Do you dream of wicked rakes, gorgeous Highlanders and muscled Viking warriors? Harlequin® Historical brings you three new full-length titles in one collection! This box set includes: #798 THE HIGHLANDER'S STOLEN BRIDE by Madeline Martin Highland Alliances (Medieval) Elspeth MacMillan was meant to be Calum Campbell’s bargaining chip for peace between their warring families. But his new captive is proving to be a tempting distraction! #800 WINNING BACK HIS DUCHESS by Amanda McCabe Dollar Duchesses (Victorian) When his estranged wife, Rose, suggests divorce, Jamie, Duke of Byson, proposes a trip to Venice instead. Might discovering Venice’s delights together rekindle their still-simmering desire? #802 CONVENIENTLY WED TO A SPY by Helen Dickson (Georgian) English spy Lord Laurence Beaumont ’s plan to reject a marriage of convenience is waylaid when he discovers his bride is none other than his beautiful rescuer, Delphine St. Clair.
Author: Amanda McCabe Publisher: Harlequin ISBN: 0369711718 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 237
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Escape to beautiful Venice for this Victorian marriage reunited story… An invitation to Venice… To save their marriage! Suggesting divorce to her estranged husband, Jamie, Duke of Byson, takes all of Rose Wilkins’s courage. Years of distance and heartbreak have taken a toll—she needs a new start. But Jamie won’t hear of divorce, because of the scandal alone. His counteroffer is a trip to Venice… Might discovering Venice’s delights together rekindle the still-simmering desire that drew Rose to Jamie as a starry-eyed young American heiress? From Harlequin Historical: Your romantic escape to the past. Dollar Duchesses Book 1: His Unlikely Duchess Book 2: Playing the Duke's Fiancée Book 3: Winning Back His Duchess
Author: Judith Martin
Author: Judith Martin
Author: Judith Martin
Author: R. J. B. Bosworth
Author: Salvatore Settis
Author: Nancy Pearl
Author: Robert Burgin
Author: Ian J. Bickerton
Author: Tom Brass
Author: Madeline Martin
Author: Amanda McCabe