The World of Venice: Revised Edition

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.
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The World of Venice: Revised Edition

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.
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The World of Venice: Revised Edition

The World of Venice: Revised Edition

by Jan Morris
The World of Venice: Revised Edition

The World of Venice: Revised Edition

by Jan Morris

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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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780156983563
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publication date: 05/12/1995
Series: Harvest Book Series
Edition description: First Edition
Pages: 348
Sales rank: 215,825
Product dimensions: 5.20(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author


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.
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