The Venetian Empire: A Sea Voyage (平装)
分類: 图书,进口原版书,History(历史),Europe(欧洲),Italy,
品牌: Jan Morris
基本信息出版社:Penguin (Non-Classics) (1990年7月3日)平装:208页正文语种:英语ISBN:0140119949条形码:9780140119947产品尺寸及重量:19.2 x 12.8 x 1.4 cm ; 159 gASIN:0140119949
商品描述内容简介For six centuries, the Republic of Venice was a maritime empire, its sovereign power extending throughout much of the eastern Mediterranean - an empire of coasts, islands and isolated fortresses by which, as Wordsworth wrote, the mercantile Venetians 'held the gorgeous east in fee'. Jan Morris reconstructs the whole of this glittering dominion in the form of a sea-voyage, travelling along the historic Venetian trade routes from Venice itself to Greece, Crete and Cyprus. It is a traveller's book, geographically arranged but wandering at will from the past to the present, evoking not only contemporary landscapes and sensations but also the characters, the emotions and the tumultuous events of the past. The first such work ever written about the Venetian 'Stato da Mar', it is an invaluable historical companion for visitors to Venice itself and for travellers through the lands the Doges once ruled.