Liquid Continent vol. 2: A Mediterranean Trilogy: Venice v. II (Armchair Traveller)

Liquid Continent vol. 2: A Mediterranean Trilogy: Venice v. II (Armchair Traveller)

by NicholasWoodsworth (Author)

Synopsis

Of all the great powers of the Mediterranean past, Venice was the most commercially ambitious. Her great wealth and sophisticated culture were products of a commercial empire that stretched from the Adriatic to the ports of the Levant, and her long history is studded with sea dramas of war, crusade and intrigue.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 282
Publisher: The Armchair Traveller at the bookHaus
Published: 12 Jan 2008

ISBN 10: 1905791453
ISBN 13: 9781905791453

Author Bio
Nicholas Woodsworth was born in Ottawa, Canada in 1953 and grew up in a diplomatic family in Africa and Asia. He graduated in Asian history. He began newspaper freelancing after settling in Aix-en-Provence in his mid-20s. He became the Financial Times Africa Correspondent in the late 1980s, and was the Weekend FT's staff travel writer from 1989 to 2003. His interest in the Mediterranean, since expanded to include the entire region, began with his marriage to his Provencal wife.