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Author: Kathryn Walker Publisher: Anchor ISBN: 0307386503 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 322
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Nel Everett, a young American woman, is touring Italy with her famous musician husband when, in a moment of fury, she pulls down her luggage and gets off the train. As her life speeds away down the tracks, Nel is marooned and on her own for the first time in eight years. Bewildered, Nel returns to Venice where she encounters a tiny dog who leads her to a enigmatic stranger, a contessa, and a decaying Gothic palazzo. She is soon drawn into a world of charismatic characters, centuries of Venetian history, and the mystery of a lost masterpiece. What begins as a tale of loneliness and heartbreak opens into a dazzling, enchanting story of secrets and self-discovery in a magical city.
Author: Kathryn Walker Publisher: Anchor ISBN: 0307386503 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 322
Book Description
Nel Everett, a young American woman, is touring Italy with her famous musician husband when, in a moment of fury, she pulls down her luggage and gets off the train. As her life speeds away down the tracks, Nel is marooned and on her own for the first time in eight years. Bewildered, Nel returns to Venice where she encounters a tiny dog who leads her to a enigmatic stranger, a contessa, and a decaying Gothic palazzo. She is soon drawn into a world of charismatic characters, centuries of Venetian history, and the mystery of a lost masterpiece. What begins as a tale of loneliness and heartbreak opens into a dazzling, enchanting story of secrets and self-discovery in a magical city.
Author: Jonathan Buckley Publisher: Rough Guides UK ISBN: 1405392150 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 548
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The Rough Guide to Venice & the Veneto is the essential travel guide with clear maps and coverage of the regions unforgettable attractions. From the spiraling Scala de Bevalo to Europe's biggest collection of contemporary art in the Dogana di Mare, The Rough Guide to Venice & the Veneto unearths the best sites, hotels, restaurants, cafés and nightlife across every price range. You'll find the lowdown on the now-trendy Rialto area and the latest news on the flood barrier and Venice's other conservation projects as well as the little-known nooks and crannies you should be exploring. The Rough Guide to Venice & the Veneto includes sections on the city's beautiful water-lapped palaces and lively festivals with specialist coverage of Venetian painting, sculpture and architecture and detailed information on the best markets and shopping-spots. Explore all corners of the region with authoritative background on everything from San Marco to the palazzi of the Canal Grande, relying on the clearest maps of any guide. Make the Most of Your Time with The Rough Guide to Venice & the Veneto.
Author: Clinton Heylin Publisher: Chicago Review Press ISBN: 1569764220 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 418
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Revealing the facts rather than the myths behind Orson Welles's Hollywood career, this groundbreaking history fills in the gaps behind the drama of one of the most well-known American filmmakers.
Author: Michelin Publisher: Michelin Travel & Lifestyle ISBN: 2067208489 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 788
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The new Green Guide Italy eBook, completely updated with more photos and offering increased coverage, features the country's rich culture, heritage and history. Michelin's celebrated star-rating system pinpoints Italy’s highlights, from the stunning coastlines of Sardinia and Sicily to historic city centers of Rome and Florence. A new section inspires travel ideas, while Practical Information is now split into pre-departure and after arrival sections for quicker reference. See Italy's best with Michelin’s walking and driving tours, maps and trusted advice. The new Green Guide Italy eBook, completely updated with more photos and offering increased coverage, features the country's rich culture, heritage and history. Michelin's celebrated star-rating system pinpoints Italy’s highlights, from the stunning coastlines of Sardinia and Sicily to historic city centers of Rome and Florence. A new section inspires travel ideas, while Practical Information is now split into pre-departure and after arrival sections for quicker reference. See Italy's best with Michelin’s walking and driving tours, maps and trusted advice. In this eBook you’ll find: • Modern layout design, more full-color photos, and increased coverage. • New "Inspiration" section for great travel ideas. • Practical Information section, now split between "Before You Go" and "On Arrival" for quicker reference. • Attractions reviewed and rated, using Michelin's celebrated star-rating system. • Walk-throughs of major museums, galleries, churches and attractions. Illustrations and floor plans are often included. • Michelin walking and driving tours with directions, mileage and travel time. • Comprehensive, fully illustrated chapters on modern-day Italy, its history, nature, art and culture all written by experts in their fields. • Editorial features on everything from Italian film awards and Oscars, to frescoes in Orvieto’s Chapel of San Brizio. • Visitor and contact information given for every attraction, as well as suggested touring times and parking tips where relevant. • Practical advice on transportation, road regulations, distance and temperature charts, events calendar • Hotel and restaurant listings for a variety of budgets. Download onto any kind of eReader (tablet or smartphone), and you’re set to go. Use the guide to orient yourself at any time with a treasure trove of 64 detailed maps, even if you’re offline with no Wi-Fi or 3G connection. With the interactive navigation, it’s easy to move within the guide. Click from the index to a point of interest or from a sight description to its location on the map. With one touch, you can even phone an establishment directly from the page or click through to a website for more information. No matter what eReader you use, with the Green GuideItaly eBook, you’ll have the ideal reference to plan a fantastic trip in advance and return home with unforgettable memories.
Author: Stefan Hanß Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1000865797 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 374
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This microhistory of the Salvagos—an Istanbul family of Venetian interpreters and spies travelling the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Mediterranean—is a remarkable feat of the historian’s craft of storytelling. With his father having been killed by secret order of Venice and his nephew to be publicly assassinated by Ottoman authorities, Genesino Salvago and his brothers started writing self-narratives. When crossing the borders of words and worlds, the Salvagos’ self-narratives helped navigate at times beneficial, other times unsettling entanglements of empire, family, and translation. The discovery of an autobiographical text with rich information on Southeastern Europe, edited here for the first time, is the starting point of this extraordinary microbiography of a family’s intense struggle for manoeuvring a changing world disrupted by competition, betrayal, and colonialism. This volume recovers the Venetian life stories of Ottoman subjects and the crucial role of translation in negotiating a shared but fragile Mediterranean. Stefan Hanß examines an interpreter’s translational practices of the self and recovers the wider Mediterranean significance of the early modern Balkan contact zone. Offering a novel conversation between translation studies, Mediterranean studies, and the history of life-writing, this volume argues that dragomans’ practices of translation, border-crossing, and mobility were key to their experiences and performances of the self. This book is an indispensable reading for the history of the early modern Mediterranean, self-narratives, Venice, the Ottoman Empire, and Southeastern Europe, as well as the history of translation. Hanß presents a truly fascinating narrative, a microhistory full of insights and rich perspectives.
Author: Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004499245 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 591
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This book explores the complex history of contact and exchange between Byzantium and the Latin West over a formative period of more than three hundred years, with a focus on the political, ecclesiastical and cultural spheres.
Author: Seressia Glass Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1439177058 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 356
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In a job like this, one mistake can cost you everything. As a Shadowchaser, Kira Solomon has been trained to serve the Light, dispatch the Fallen, and prevent the spread of chaos. It’s a deadly job, and Kira knows the horror of spilling innocent blood. But now she has a new role, as the Hand of Ma’at, the Egyptian Goddess of Truth and Order, and an assignment that might just redeem her. A fellow Shadowchaser has gone missing, and so has a unique artifact imbued with astonishing magic. Unless the Vessel of Nun is returned, it will cause destruction beyond anything the modern world has seen. Kira’s got a team at her back, including Khefar, a near-immortal Nubian warrior who’s already died for her once. But as complicated as her feelings for him are, they’re nothing compared to the difficulties of the task she faces.And the only way to defeat the enemy is to trust in a powershe can barely control, and put her life—and her soul—on the line.
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: Alexis Landau Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 080417346X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 498
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A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year The Empire of the Senses is an enthralling tale of love and war, duty and self-discovery. It begins in 1914 when Lev Perlmutter, an assimilated German Jew fighting in World War I, finds unexpected companionship on the Eastern Front; back at home, his wife Josephine embarks on a clandestine affair of her own. A decade later, during the heady, politically charged interwar years in Berlin, their children—one, a nascent Fascist struggling with his sexuality, the other a young woman entranced by the glitz and glamour of the Jazz Age—experience their own romantic awakenings. With a painter’s sensibility for the layered images that comprise our lives, this exquisite novel by Alexis Landau marks the emergence of a writer uniquely talented in bringing the past to the present.
Author: David Jacoby Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1040247148 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 346
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This fourth collection by David Jacoby focuses on Western economic expansion the Eastern Mediterranean during the 11th-15th centuries. He is concerned to emphasize the interconnections linking the West, Byzantium and the Levant, and to examine normative sources for commercial activity (charters, etc.) against the background of actual practice, such as reflected in notarial documents. The articles deal with the evolution of urban centres, the trade in raw materials, and at the same time questions of technology transfer and the mobility of merchants and craftsmen. Particular attention is given to the silk trade: the author argues that demographic expansion in the Byzantine world, as in the West, stimulated economic growth, and demand for silk led to the emergence of a market-driven industry in Byzantium.
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