The Other Venice by Predrag Matvejevic

The Other Venice by Predrag Matvejevic

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To know a city is to become intimately intertwined with its nooks, crevices, secret passageways and dark places where its lifeblood flows and what city has more of those than Venice? This title ventures past the infamous canals and cobblestone streets of the tourist's Venice to find the heart of the historic Italian city.

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The Other Venice by Predrag Matvejevic

To know a city is to become intimately intertwined with its nooks, crevices, secret passageways and dark places where its lifeblood flows and what city has more of those than Venice? This title ventures past the infamous canals and cobblestone streets of the tourist's Venice to find the heart of the historic Italian city.
The Other Venice is a short book but one of the great books written both about the city and about the inspiration it has evoked down the centuriesLiberation, Paris
Predrag Matvejevic was born in 1932 in Mostar from a Russian father and a Croatian mother. He teaches at the New Sorbonne, Paris and the Sapienza, Rome, and is also the author of Mediterranean: A Cultural Landscape (1999).
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ISBN 13 9781861893376
ISBN 10 186189337X
Title The Other Venice
Author Predrag Matvejevic
Series Topographics
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Reaktion Books
Year published 2007-08-01
Number of pages 176
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.