Venice, a Personal View
By (author) Andrea Baldeck
Paperback (Published)
(January 1999)
ISBN: 9781931707572
10.47 x 10 inches
Price: $45.00
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Hardback (Published)
(January 1999)
ISBN: 9781931707565
10.47 x 10 inches
Price: $95.00
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Poised in delicate, often hazardous balance with the liquid natural world the fabric of the man-made city rises out of the water and is reflected in it. The earth of Venice, a tissue of alluvial silt, is upheld and given form by a vast subterranean endoskeleton of wooden pilings supporting buildings of splendor with their feet in the mud. The air of Venice carries both heat and swells from North Africa’s deserts and envelops life like liquid gauze. And fire, the most volatile of the four elements, has both destroyed and redrawn swaths of the city and fed the industry and commerce of a trading nation.
- By (author) Andrea Baldeck
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