Venice - Pure City

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  • Author: Peter Ackroyd
  • Publisher: Vintage
  • Catalogue: 188557
  • Size: 13x20cm
A title created in the light of Peter Ackroyd’s own television series, Venice - Pure City presents the mystery and beauty of this jewel in the lagoon of Italy’s north. The city is dealt with in true Ackroydian style - at once romantic and factual, conjuring up the atmosphere of the canals, bridges and squares, the churches, festivals and hidden back streets.

Ackroyd leads us through the history of the city from the arrival of its first refugees in the fourth century, via its rise as a great mercantile centre to the modern-day invasion by tourists and the gondola trade; from Jewish ghettos to carnival masks, from destitute artists to sumptuous Murano glass. Ackroyd's book is a fresh journey through the magical realm of Venice.