The Liquid Continent : Travels through Alexandria, Venice and Istanbul EPUB
by Woodsworth Nicholas Woodsworth
Part of the Armchair Traveller series
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This omnibus edition brings together Nicholas Woodsworth's critically acclaimed Mediterranean trilogy into a single volume for the first time, allowing readers to fully appreciate the scope of Woodsworth's search for a distinctively Mediterranean "cosmopolitanism." Combining travel narrative, history, and reflection on contemporary lives and cultures, Woodsworth finds an intimacy, a garrulous warmth, and an extraordinary sociability as he travels from Alexandria through Venice and finally installs himself in a former Benedictine monastery in Istanbul overlooking the Golden Horn. Responding to this experience, he argues that the sea should not be seen as an empty space surrounded by Europe, Asia, and Africa, but rather as a single entity, a place from whose coastlines people look inwards over the water to each other-for it has its own cities, its own life, its own way of being.
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- Format:EPUB
- Pages:348 pages
- Publisher:Haus Publishing
- Publication Date:15/08/2016
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- ISBN:9781909961074
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:EPUB
- Pages:348 pages
- Publisher:Haus Publishing
- Publication Date:15/08/2016
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- ISBN:9781909961074
