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Twentieth Century Paris - 1900-1950: a Literary Guide for Travellers by Marie-José Gransard
Category: Travel | Series: Literary Guides for Travellers Ser.
Paris is the crowning jewel of France, and this literary guide for travelers explores its 20th century history, from 1900-1950.Paris at the turn of the twentieth century had become the cultural capital of the world. Artists and writers came to contribute to flourishing avant-garde movements, as the Left ...Show more
Venice: A Literary Guide for Travellers by Marie-Jose Gransard
Category: Travel | Series: The\I. B. Tauris Literary Guides for Travellers Ser.
Based on the author's popular seminars and walking tours of Venice, this entertaining and comprehensive "guide for literary travelers" is a work of literature itself, chronicling the writers and artists who have worked in or travelled to Venice over the centuries. Organized around six themes, such as Lu ...Show more
Venice - A Literary Guide for Travellers by Marie-José Gransard
Category: History | Series: Literary Guides for Travellers Ser.
"Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased," Marco Polo said. "Perhaps I am afraid of losing Venice all at once, if I speak of it, or perhaps, speaking of other cities, I have already lost it, little by little." -- Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities Venice, 'La Serenissima', is one of the m ...Show more
Venice, a Traveller's Reader by John Julius Norwich
Category: Travel | Series: Traveller's Reader
Henry 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'. Reactions to Venice have been, ...Show more
Wild Places (Inspired Traveller's Guide) by Sarah Baxter
Category: Travel | Series: Inspired Traveller's Guides
A guide to 25 untameable or rewilded places throughout the world, with beautiful illustrations and great tips for the mindful traveller, as well as commentary on conservation of these special places.