Author: Hephaestus Books
Publisher: Hephaestus Books
Keywords: san, venice, church, paolo, giorgio, zulian, mois, beneto, giovanni, maggiore, salute, basilica, mark, including, frari, santa, churches, della, maria, santi
Number of Pages: 132
Published: 2011-10-01
List price: $20.75
ISBN-10: 1244786802
ISBN-13: 9781244786806
Hephaestus Books represents a new publishing paradigm, allowing disparate content sources to be curated into cohesive, relevant, and informative books. To date, this content has been curated from Wikipedia articles and images under Creative Commons licensing, although as Hephaestus Books continues to increase in scope and dimension, more licensed and public domain content is being added. We believe books such as this represent a new and exciting lexicon in the sharing of human knowledge. This particular book contains chapters focused on Churches in Venice, and Basilica churches in Venice. Mo
Author: Micheli
Publisher: Michelin Travel & Lifestyle
Keywords: venice, guide, michelin, english
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2009-01-01
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 1906261369
ISBN-13: 9781906261368
Venice is a city where waterfront palaces rub shoulders with modest houses, where housewives sit chatting as they hang their laundry in elegant medieval campos, where sun-bathing is done from your rooftop altana and your bus to work has an outboard engine. Discover an ancient and fiercely independent culture, whose swirling life is echoed in the circling flocks of pigeons of the Piazza San Marco. The Michelin Green Guide is the authority on Venice today and the forces of nature and society that have shaped it. Michelin?s local writers have walked, water taxied, visited, slept, shopped and eate
Author: M. Sasek
Publisher: Universe
Keywords: venice
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 2005-02-22
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0789312239
ISBN-13: 9780789312235
On the heels of the runaway bestsellers This is New York and This is Paris, Universe is pleased to reissue another title from M. Sasek’s beloved and nostalgic children’s travel series.Like the other Sasek classics, This is Venice is a facsimile edition of his original book from the 1960s and is still timely and current in every way. The brilliant, vibrant illustrations have been meticulously preserved, remaining true to his vision more than 40 years later and, where applicable, facts have been updated for the twenty-first century, appearing on a "This is...Today" page at the back o
Author: Venice J. Bloodworth
Publisher: www.bnpublishing.com
Keywords: yourself, key
Number of Pages: 108
Published: 2008-07-17
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 9650060243
ISBN-13: 9789650060244
The Key to Yourself will take you into a new world of accomplishment, prosperity, friends and pleasure. It will give you a golden return if you will study it correctly and steadily. The inestimable value of psychology cannot be comprehended by a mere reading or superficial knowledge, - its true worth can only be ascertained by study, concentration and practice, and in all fairness to the writer and yourself, you are requested to follow the methods set forth herein faithfully. If you will do this, you will find that psychology will do for you what it has done for others, that it will actually p
Author: Kathryn Walker
Publisher: Anchor
Keywords: venice, stopover
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2009-10-06
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0307386503
ISBN-13: 9780307386502
Nel Everett, a young American woman, is touring Italy with her famous musician husband when, in a moment of fury, she pulls down her luggage and gets off the train. As her life speeds away down the tracks, Nel is marooned and on her own for the first time in eight years.Bewildered, Nel returns to Venice where she encounters a tiny dog who leads her to a enigmatic stranger, a contessa, and a decaying Gothic palazzo. She is soon drawn into a world of charismatic characters, centuries of Venetian history, and the mystery of a lost masterpiece. What begins as a tale of loneliness and heartbreak op
Author: Thomas Ma
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: stories, seven, venice, death
Number of Pages: 402
Published: 1989-03-13
List price: $12.00
ISBN-10: 0679722068
ISBN-13: 9780679722069
Mann’s bestselling work of fiction now appears in a trade paperback format with a striking new jacket. Sales of the classic have totaled over 800,000 copies and average 42,000 copies a year.
Author: Kathryn Walker
Publisher: Knopf
Keywords: venice, stopover
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2008-08-19
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0307267067
ISBN-13: 9780307267061
An enchanting debut novela fairy tale of sorts.The time is the present. The novel opens on a train en route to Verona. A young American woman is on an Italian tour with her famous musician husband. In a moment of fury and despair at their lifeless marriage, she drags down a piece of her luggage and gets off the train in the countryside. Marooned and on her own for the first time in eight years, she returns to Venice, gets a room at the Hotel Gritti Palace, sets out to explore the city, and chances on a group of boys tormenting a small dog, which she rescues and smuggles into the hotel.The fol
