Venice
Pure City
General History
Peter Ackroyd
Chatto & Windus 2009
Hardback 403 pages Illustrated 
0701172851 | 9780701172855 |  Product code: 84605  
Evanescent, mysterious, beautiful yet sinister, Venice is a city like no other. With his customary evocative power, Ackroyd does more than lead the reader on a masterly, authoritative tour of its dramatic history, tracing its rise from an obscure island settlement to a great mercantile power, and its subsequent decline; he conjures the very spirit of the place, a ghostly miasma of romance and danger, mist and incense, dank canals and sunlit squares, carnival revels and ancient intrigues.
 
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