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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"... Read Full Overview

Often hailed as one of the best travel books ever written, Venice is neither a guide nor a history book, but a beautifully-written immersion in Venetian life and character, set against the background of the city's past. Analysing the particular temperament of Venetians,... Read Full Overview

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"... Read Full Overview

Phantoms, werewolves, and the walking dead populate this eerie history of New England that reveals some of the region's darkest secrets--all of them true. Tales include the mystery hidden in a quiet Connecticut graveyard, a restless spirit of a murdered soldier roaming an abandoned... Read Full Overview

Phantoms, werewolves, and the walking dead populate this eerie history of New England that reveals some of the region's darkest secrets--all of them true. Tales include the mystery hidden in a quiet Connecticut graveyard, a restless spirit of a murdered soldier roaming an abandoned... Read Full Overview

Venice stands, as she loves to tell you, on the frontiers of the east and west, halfway between the setting and the rising sun. Goethe calls her "the marketplace of the Morning and the Evening lands." Certainly no city on earth gives a more immediate impression of symmetry... Read Full Overview

Venice stands, as she loves to tell you, on the frontiers of the east and west, halfway between the setting and the rising sun. Goethe calls her "the marketplace of the Morning and the Evening lands." Certainly no city on earth gives a more immediate impression of symmetry... Read Full Overview

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This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

Venice stands, as she loves to tell you, on the frontiers of the east and west, halfway between the setting and the rising sun. Goethe calls her "the marketplace of the Morning and the Evening lands." Certainly no city on earth gives a more immediate impression of symmetry... Read Full Overview