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The Venetian Empire

Paperback • 1990 • English

The Venetian Empire

By Jan Morris

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About the book

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, ...Show more

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ISBN

9780140119947

Publisher

Penguin Books Ltd

Published year

1990

Language

English

Original title

The Venetian Empire

Format

Paperback

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