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The Lion of St. Mark
The Lion of St. Mark ab 9.99 € als epub eBook: Book One of The Venetians. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Belletristik, Historische Romane,- Shop: hugendubel
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Venetian-English English-Venetian
Venetian-English English-Venetian ab 49.49 € als Taschenbuch: When in Venice Do as the Venetians. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, English, International, Englische Taschenbücher,- Shop: hugendubel
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The City of Falling Angels, Hörbuch, Digital, 345min
It was seven years ago that Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil achieved a record-breaking four-year run on the New York Times best seller list. John Berendt's inimitable brand of nonfiction brought the dark mystique of Savannah so startlingly to life for millions of people that tourism to Savannah increased by 46 percent.It is Berendt and only Berendt who can capture Venice - a city of masks, a city of riddles, where the narrow, meandering passageways form a giant maze, confounding all who have not grown up wandering into its depths. Venice, a city steeped in 1,000 years of history, art, and architecture, teeters in precarious balance between endurance and decay. Its architectural treasures crumble - foundations shift, marble ornaments fall - even as efforts to preserve them are underway.The City of Falling Angels opens on the evening of January 29, 1996, when a dramatic fire destroys the historic Fenice opera house. The loss of the Fenice, where five of Verdi's operas premiered, is a catastrophe for Venetians. Arriving in Venice three days after the fire, Berendt becomes a kind of detective - inquiring into the nature of life in this remarkable museum-city - while gradually revealing the truth about the fire.In the course of his investigations, Berendt introduces us to a rich cast of characters: a prominent Venetian poet whose shocking "suicide" prompts his skeptical friends to pursue a murder suspect on their own; the First Family of American expatriates who lose possession of the family palace after four generations of ownership; an organization of high-society, party-going Americans who raise money to preserve the art and architecture of Venice, while quarreling in public among themselves, questioning each other's motives and drawing startled Venetians into the fray; a contemporary Venetian surrealist painter and outrageous provocateur; the master glassblower of Venice; and numerous others - stool-pigeons, sca Language: English. Narrator: John Berendt. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/000681/bk_rand_000681_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Drama of Glass , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 26min
The Drama of Glass, by Kate Field, was published in 1895 and attempts to tell a sweeping story about the past, present, and future of glass while at the same time advertising it's publisher, the Libby Glass Company. The prologue begins with speculations of the origns of glass by the Phoenicians and Venetians. It also depicts the beginings of glass in America in 1608. The next section of the book details the evolution of glass from 1850 to 1893, focusing, not suprisingly, on Libby Glass. The third section of the book dramatically departs from the history laid out so far to relate the fairy tale of Cinderella's glass slippers metaphorically to actress Georgia Cayvan's journey to create a dress spun out of glass, which was later duplicated by a Spanish princess. The last section returns to the Libby Glass Company and their involvement in the World's Fair of 1893. This section asks the readers (presumably those who attended the fair themselves) questions about their own experiences to encourage their own reflections on the exhibit. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Scott Nilsen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/mike/000013/bk_mike_000013_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Venice
Often hailed as one of the best travel books ever written, Venice is neither a guide nor a history book, but a beautifully written immersion in Venetian life and character, set against the background of the city's past. Analysing the particular temperament of Venetians, as well as its waterways, its architecture, its bridges, its tourists, its curiosities, its smells, sounds, lights and colours, there is scarcely a corner of Venice that Jan Morris has not investigated and brought vividly to life.Jan Morris first visited the city of Venice as young James Morris, during World War II. As she writes in the introduction, 'it is Venice seen through a particular pair of eyes at a particular moment - young eyes at that, responsive above all to the stimuli of youth.' Venice is an impassioned work on this magnificent but often maddening city. Jan Morris's collection of travel writing and reportage spans over five decades and includes such titles as Sydney, Coronation Everest, Hong Kong, Spain and Manhattan '45. Since its first publication, Venice has appeared in many editions, won the W.H. Heinemann award and become an international bestseller.'The best book about Venice ever written' Sunday Times'No sensible visitor should visit the place without it . . . Venice stands alone as the essential introduction, and as a work of literature in its own right.' Observer- Shop: buecher
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The City of Falling Angels , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 772min
It was seven years ago that Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil achieved a record-breaking four-year run on The New York Times best seller list. John Berendt's inimitable brand of nonfiction brought the dark mystique of Savannah so startlingly to life for millions of people that tourism to Savannah increased by 46 percent. It is Berendt and only Berendt who can capture Venice, a city of masks, a city of riddles, where the narrow, meandering passageways form a giant maze, confounding all who have not grown up wandering into its depths. Venice, a city steeped in a thousand years of history, art, and architecture, teeters in precarious balance between endurance and decay. Its architectural treasures crumble, foundations shift, marble ornaments fall, even as efforts to preserve them are underway. The City of Falling Angels opens on the evening of January 29, 1996, when a dramatic fire destroys the historic Venice opera house. The loss of the Fenice, where five of Verdi's operas premiered, is a catastrophe for Venetians. Arriving in Venice three days after the fire, Berendt becomes a kind of detective, inquiring into the nature of life in this remarkable museum-city-while gradually revealing the truth about the fire. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Holter Graham. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/000680/bk_rand_000680_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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From Cyprus to Lepanto
From Cyprus to Lepanto ab 43.99 € als gebundene Ausgabe: History of the Events Which Occurred from the Beginning of the War Brought against the Venetians by Selim the Ottoman to the Day of the Great and Victorious Battle against the Turks. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Wissenschaft, Geschichte,- Shop: hugendubel
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The Alchemist's Revenge: The Real Game of Thrones (Company of Archers) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 712min
Arrows fly, swords clash, women are bedded, prizes are taken, nobles and churchmen are gulled out of their coins, and the French and Venetians are successfully blamed for things they did not do. This is another exciting story in Martin Archer’s continuing and action-packed saga about the men of a company of English archers in the medieval world’s very real game of thrones. It is by far the longest and one of the most action-packed and wittiest. Flashman would be proud, Tom Brown appalled, and the men of the marines and the SAS would have felt right at home.The year is 1219 in Constantinople and the recently widowed English-born empress of the great Latin Empire has donated enough coins to the pope to have been chosen by God to be her young son’s regent. She, in turn, has hired George Courtenay’s Cornwall-based Company of Archers to help her defend her throne against the many kings and princes who are trying to replace her.This is the story of a real life game of thrones set in the early years when the first of the great heavily armed merchant companies were being formed and Britain was just beginning to grow into a naval and commercial powerhouse that would punch far above its weight in the centuries that followed. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Andrew Cox. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/181642/bk_acx0_181642_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Water Mirror: Dark Reflections, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 362min
In Venice, magic is not unusual. Merle is apprenticed to a magic mirror maker, and Serafin, a boy who was once a master thief, works for a weaver of magic cloth. Merle and Serafin are used to the mermaids who live in the canals of the city, beautiful creatures with hideous mouths that split their faces from ear to ear, and to the guards who patrol the streets on living stone lions. Merle herself possesses something magical: a mirror whose surface is water. She can reach her whole arm into it and never get wet.Now, Venice is under siege by the Egyptian Empire; its terrifying mummy warriors and flying sunbarks are waiting to strike. All that protects the Venetians is the Flowing Queen. Nobody knows who or what she is, only that her power flows through the canals and keeps the Egyptians at bay.When Merle and Serafin overhear a plot to capture the Flowing Queen, they are catapulted into desperate danger. They must do everything they can to rescue the Queen and save the city, even if it means getting help from the Ancient Traitor himself.Kai Meyer's bold, original fantasy conjures up a land of magic and menace as Merle and Serafin begin a journey to unimagined realms in the extraordinary world of Dark Reflections. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Toby Longworth. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/lili/000320/bk_lili_000320_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1475min
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio. Istanbul has always been a place where stories and histories collide and crackle, where the idea is as potent as the historical fact. From the Qu'ran to Shakespeare, this city with three names - Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul - resonates as an idea and a place and overspills its boundaries - real and imagined. Standing as the gateway between the East and West, it has served as the capital of the Roman, Byzantine, Latin and Ottoman Empires. For much of its history, it was known simply as The City, but, as Bettany Hughes reveals, Istanbul is not just a city but a story. In this epic new biography, Hughes takes us on a dazzling historical journey through the many incarnations of one of the world's greatest cities. As the longest-lived political entity in Europe, over the last 6,000 years Istanbul has absorbed a mosaic of microcities and cultures all gathering around the core. At the latest count, archaeologists have measured 42 human habitation layers. Phoenicians, Genoese, Venetians, Jews, Vikings and Azeris all called a patch of this earth their home. Based on meticulous research and new archaeological evidence, this captivating portrait of the momentous life of Istanbul is visceral, immediate and scholarly narrative history at its finest. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bettany Hughes. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/orio/001049/bk_orio_001049_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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