Price: £36.00
Brand: Lovereading
Description: La Serenissima The Story of Venice. Hardback. By Jonathan Keates.
Category: Books
Merchant: LoveReading
Product ID: 9781789545050
Price: £9.99
Brand: The Armchair Traveller at the Bookhaus
Description: Each year of their 30-year marriage, Louis Begley, the award-winning author of Wartime Lies, and his wife Anka Muhlstein have spent long, enjoyable months in Venice. They write and live there and over the decades La Serenissima has become their second home. The owners of their favourite restaurants have become their friends and they share the lives of the locals, far off the welltrodden tourist track. Begley tells the story of how he fell in love with and in Venice, though as he makes clear when writing on Venice's pivitol role in world literature, he was not the only one - Henry James, Marcel Proust and Thomas Mann are only three of his most illustrious predecessors. The Armchair Traveller at the Bookhaus Venice For Lovers - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
Category: Books
Delivery cost: 2.99
ISBN: 9781907973703
Merchant: Waterstones
Product ID: 9781907973703
Price: £16.99
Brand: Pallas Athene Publishers
Description: None of Venice's innumerable chroniclers have portrayed the Serenissima's character with quite such a combination of the scholarly, the informal and the intimate. Over the years thousands of readers, starting this book, have been relieved to encounter its famously undemanding approach to the city - 'Generally the first thing to do in Venice is to sit down and have some coffee': but by the time they get to the end of it, all the same, they will have learnt virtually everything that an educated stranger needs to know about the place, its art and its history, besides being subtly entertained throughout.' - From the Introduction by Jan Morris. Pallas Athene Publishers Venice for Pleasure - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
Category: Books
Delivery cost: 2.99
ISBN: 9781843681083
Merchant: Waterstones
Product ID: 9781843681083
Price: £9.99
Brand: Little, Brown Book Group
Description: An inspiring, life-affirming story' Reader's Digest Philip and Caroline Jones, a middle-aged couple living in Edinburgh, found themselves facing redundancy and an uncertain future. Until they received some advice from a complete stranger in a pub. Their response was to sell everything in order to move to Venice, in search of a better, simpler life. They were wrong about the 'simpler' bit. To Venice with Love recounts how they arrived in Venice with ten pieces of luggage, no job, no friends and no long-term place to stay. From struggling with the language to battling bureaucracy; the terror of teaching English to Italian teenagers, the company of a modestly friendly cat. and finally, from debugging financial systems on an Edinburgh industrial estate, to building an ordinary life in an extraordinary city, To Venice with Love is a love-letter to a city that changed their lives. It's a story told through the history, music, art, architecture (and, of course, the food) of La Serenissima.
Category: Books
Delivery cost: 2.99
ISBN: 9781472130228
Merchant: Waterstones
Product ID: 9781472130228
Price: £13.49
Brand: Lovereading
Description: La Serenissima. Paperback. By Jonathan Keates.
Category: Books
Merchant: LoveReading
Product ID: 9781789545067
Price: £42.00
Brand: Arnoldsche
Description: James Wilson Morrice: Paintings and Drawings of Venice is the first comprehensive overview of the artist's images of Venice, Italy. Living in Paris for most of his life, Morrice (1865-1924) was the first Canadian painter to make regular trips to Venice from the mid 1890s to about 1908. This book situates Morrice within the history of Venice and Venetian art in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by looking carefully at his more than 100 modernist paintings and numerous drawings of 'La Serenissima." During his lifetime, Morrice's Venetian pictures appeared in art exhibitions in Paris, London and other European countries, as well as in Montreal and the United States. Constantly cited in exhibition reviews, Morrice was praised for his modernity, and his Venice works have ensured his fame and importance for years to come.
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Delivery cost: 0.00
ISBN: 9783897906914
Merchant: Waterstones
Product ID: 9783897906914
Price: £26.00
Brand: Marsilio
Description: The story of the famous English critic's long and fruitful love affair with the city of Venice John Ruskin visited Venice numerous times over the course of his life, starting in 1835, and after long stays in the city he published his three-volume masterpiece The Stones of Venice | ??a gorgeous paean to the beauty, uniqueness and fragility of this city that was destined to become a cornerstone of English culture and mark the beginning of the Gothic Revival. Venice, in Ruskin's drawings and watercolors, is a theater of lost time that builds up traces of historical time even as it is subject to erasure and destruction. In Venice with Ruskin is a meditation on the city, its architecture, its bittersweet relationship with nature, Ruskin's dialogue with the great Venetian artists whose works he reproduced, the curiosity that prompted him to explore it and the imagination with which he captured its essence on paper.
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Delivery cost: 0.00
ISBN: 9791254631225
Merchant: Waterstones
Product ID: 9791254631225
Price: £6.99
Brand: Hachette Children's Group
90 ratings
Description: An enchanting tale of magic, mermaids and adventure for readers aged 9 and up - from bestselling author, Holly Webb. Venice is faced with terrible danger. Can the friendship between a young girl and a mermaid save the city? Lady Mia doesn't want to believe in magic, even though her cousin, the princess, is the most magical ruler Venice has ever known. But when Mia meets a mermaid called Ara, it is impossible for her to deny her destiny any longer. The two friends must work together to save their home - but will their combined magic be enough to defeat the Talish invaders? The Magical Venice books are all share the same beautiful setting, but can be read as standalone stories. The series includes: The Water Horse, The Mermaid's Sister, The Maskmasker's Daughter, and The Girl of Glass. Discover more by Holly Webb with her Rose and Lily series - also filled with magical adventures. Hachette Children's Group A Magical Venice story: The Mermaid's Sister - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
Category: Books
Delivery cost: 2.99
ISBN: 9781408327647
Merchant: Waterstones
Product ID: 9781408327647
Price: £7.99
Brand: Hachette Children's Group
106 ratings
Description: An enchanting tale of magic, friendship and adventure for readers aged 9 and up - from bestselling author, Holly Webb. Olivia is the princess of Venice. So when the waters start to rise, she knows only her magic can prevent disaster befalling the city. Desperate for help, and for a friend, Olivia discovers something incredible: a water horse, hidden in the canals of the city. Invisible to most, Lucian knows the deepest secrets of the sea - secrets that could hold the key to saving the city. But can their friendship overcome those plotting against Olivia, and against Venice itself? The Magical Venice books are all share the same beautiful setting, but can be read as standalone stories. The series includes: The Water Horse, The Mermaid's Sister, The Maskmasker's Daughter, and The Girl of Glass. Discover more by Holly Webb with her Rose and Lily series - also filled with magical adventures. Hachette Children's Group A Magical Venice story: The Water Horse - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
Category: Books
Delivery cost: 2.99
ISBN: 9781408327623
Merchant: Waterstones
Product ID: 9781408327623
Price: £5.99
Brand: Hachette Children's Group
79 ratings
Description: In Venice, the merchant Antonio borrows money so his friend can woo a beautiful lady. He agrees that if he doesn't repay Shylock the moneylender, Shylock can take a pound of his flesh. When Antonio's ships sink and he loses his fortune, Shylock insists on the gruesome payment. With Notes on Shakespeare and the Globe Theatre and Love, Hate and Mercy in The Merchant of Venice. The tales have been retold using accessible language and with the help of Tony Ross's engaging black-and-white illustrations, each play is vividly brought to life allowing these culturally enriching stories to be shared with as wide an audience as possible. Have you read all of The Shakespeare Stories books? Available in this series: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, The Tempest, Hamlet, Twelfth Night, Antony and Cleopatra, Much Ado About Nothing, The Merchant of Venice, Henry V, Julius Caesar, As You Like It, Othello, The Taming of the Shrew, Richard III, and King Lear. Hachette Children's Group A Shakespeare Story: The Merchant of Venice - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
Category: Books
Delivery cost: 2.99
ISBN: 9781408305041
Merchant: Waterstones
Product ID: 9781408305041
Price: £4.49
Brand: Lovereading
Description: Venice Pop Out Map. By Pop Out Maps. Lovereading Venice PopOut Map - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
Category: Books
Merchant: LoveReading
Product ID: 9781914515859