{"product_id":"venice-john-julius-norwich-9781472140302","title":"Venice: A Traveller's Reader","description":"\u003cp\u003eHenry James wrote of Venice: 'You desire to embrace it, to caress it, to possess it . . .' whereas Mark Twain found St Mark's 'so ugly . . . propped on its long row of thick-legged columns, its back knobbed with domes, it seems like a vast, warty bug taking a meditative walk'. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eReactions to Venice have been, throughout the ages, astonishingly different. John Julius Norwich has put together a dazzling anthology, drawing on the writings of Byron, Goethe, Wagner, Casanova, Jan Morris, Robert Browning and Horace Walpole, among many others. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe pieces range from the sixth century, when the early lagoon-dwellers lived 'like sea-birds in huts, built on heaps of osiers' to the exquisite city of eighteenth-century revellers and nineteenth-century art lovers. The city's many diferent guises are shown as both its citizens and visitors saw them. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis wonderful volume from the Traveller's Reader series also contains maps, engravings and notes on history, art, architecture and everyday city life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Julius Norwich\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1472140303\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781472140302\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Robinson Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/12\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 432\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.70h x 5.00w x 1.20d","brand":"John Julius Norwich","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44052842676479,"sku":"9781472140302","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_75f463f9-57b4-4704-9ed0-6c5dc2bb7d61.jpg?v=1685021025","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/venice-john-julius-norwich-9781472140302","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}