VENICE
Written by Jan Morris
Published by Folio Society
in 2008
- Categorised in:
- FOLIO SOCIETY
- TOPOGRAPHY (FOREIGN)
- ITALY
- VENICE
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VENICE
Written by Jan Morris.
Stock no. 1830615
1st thus.
2008.
Hardback.
Very good condition.
Printed cloth, silver title to spine. Map of Venice to endpapers. Colour photos. xv and 346 pages including index. A lovely copy contained in publisher's slipcase which is heavily faded at edges.
Front cover
Contents
- FOREWORD
- LANDFALL
- THE PEOPLE
- 1. Islanders
- 2. The Venetian Way
- 3. Strong Men
- 4. The Truth Not to Everyone
- 5. On Women
- 6. Minor Venetians
- 7. Pageantries and Panaceas
- 8. 'Poi Cristiani'
- 9. Minorities
- 10. Melancholia
- THE CITY
- 11. Ex-Island
- 12. Streets Full of Water'
- 13. Stones of Venice
- 14. City Services
- 15. Age
- 16. The Bestiary
- 17. Arabesques
- 18. The Seasons
- 19. New on the Rialto
- 20. Curiosities
- 21. The Prodigies
- 22. Purposes
- THE LAGOON
- 23. Seventh Sea
- 24. The Office of a Moat
- 25. Navigation
- 26. On the Edge
- 27. Island Towns
- 28. Holy Waters
- 29. Dead and Alive
- 30. the Sacred Bulwarks
- 31. Lost
- EMBARKATION
- CHRONOLOGY
- INDEX