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Madrid : A Traveller's Reader by Hugh Thomas
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Category: Travel | Series: Traveller's Reader
The charm of Madrid is elusive, but for those who know how to find it, Madrid has magic. Its magic can be found in the shadow cast over the present by the past. In this Traveller's Reader, a city that was once the seat of power for perhaps the most ambitious political enterprise the western world had se ...Show more
St Petersburg: A Traveller's Reader by Laurence Kelly
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Category: Travel | Series: Traveller's Reader
Featuring a vivid selection from biographies, novels, letters, poems, diaries and memoirs, this volume traces the story of St Petersburg from earliest times. Through these pieces, readers can observe the city's foundation by Peter the Great on the marshy shores of the Gulf of Finland; see how literature ...Show more
Venice, a Traveller's Reader by John Julius Norwich
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Category: Travel | Series: Traveller's Reader
Henry James wrote of Venice: 'You desire to embrace it, to caress it, to possess it ...' whereas Mark Twain found St Mark's 'so ugly ...propped on its long row of thick-legged columns, its back knobbed with domes, it seems like a vast, warty bug taking a meditative walk'. Reactions to Venice have been, ...Show more
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