Venice stands, as she loves to tell you, on the frontiers of the east and west, half-way between the setting and the rising sun. Goethe calls her the market-place of the Morning and the Evening lands. Certainly no city on earth gives a more immediate impression of symmetry and unity, or seems more patently born to greatness.
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"i really don't generally appreciate travel books about places i have no intention of visiting. but this is not a travel book, not really. it's just an amazing book. breathtaking portraiture of an ancient beauty. " — Jen (5 out of 5 stars)
"i really don't generally appreciate travel books about places i have no intention of visiting. but this is not a travel book, not really. it's just an amazing book. breathtaking portraiture of an ancient beauty. "
" Second time around for me and these two Jan Morris travel / history books. Unique takes on unique places. "
" The dreamy style of the book fits perfectly the melancholy of Venice. I have actually read it during a visit to Venice, it was a perfect companion. It is not fiction, but it reads like a story. "
Jan Morris is the author of some forty books, most notably the Pax Britannica trilogy about the rise and fall of the British Empire.
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