Venice: the City of the Sea - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Venice: the City of the Sea write by Edmund Flagg. This book was released on 1853. Venice: the City of the Sea available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Venice Against the Sea
Venice Against the Sea - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Venice Against the Sea write by John Keahey. This book was released on 2002-03-20. Venice Against the Sea available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Venice is sinking - six feet over the past 1,000 years. The reasons for this are many. Although there is a natural geologic tendency for some sinking, humans have exacerbated the problem by exploiting on a massive scale underground water resources for industrial purposes. Coupled with these events - and perhaps most significant - are climatic changes all over the globe. The heating of the atmosphere after the last ice age, dramatically speeded up by humans, has led to a steady, continuing rise in sea level. This global warming is likely to persist beyond human control for hundreds, if not thousands, of years. Venetians, other Italians, and many in the world community are locked in debate over Venice's plight. Venice Against the Sea explains how the city and its 177 canals were built and what has led up to this long-foreseen crisis. It explores the various options currently being considered for "solving" this problem and chronicles the ongoing debate among scientists, engineers, and politicians about the pros and cons of each potential solution. Through extensive research and interviews, award-winning journalist John Keahey has written the definitive book on this fascinating problem. No matter what the experts decide to do, one thing is for certain - Venice's art, its buildings, and its history are too important to the planet's cultural identity to let it slip beneath the rising waters of the Adriatic.
City of Fortune
City of Fortune - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook City of Fortune write by Roger Crowley. This book was released on 2012-01-24. City of Fortune available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “The rise and fall of Venice’s empire is an irresistible story and [Roger] Crowley, with his rousing descriptive gifts and scholarly attention to detail, is its perfect chronicler.”—The Financial Times The New York Times bestselling author of Empires of the Sea charts Venice’s astounding five-hundred-year voyage to the pinnacle of power in an epic story that stands unrivaled for drama, intrigue, and sheer opulent majesty. City of Fortune traces the full arc of the Venetian imperial saga, from the ill-fated Fourth Crusade, which culminates in the sacking of Constantinople in 1204, to the Ottoman-Venetian War of 1499–1503, which sees the Ottoman Turks supplant the Venetians as the preeminent naval power in the Mediterranean. In between are three centuries of Venetian maritime dominance, during which a tiny city of “lagoon dwellers” grow into the richest place on earth. Drawing on firsthand accounts of pitched sea battles, skillful negotiations, and diplomatic maneuvers, Crowley paints a vivid picture of this avaricious, enterprising people and the bountiful lands that came under their dominion. From the opening of the spice routes to the clash between Christianity and Islam, Venice played a leading role in the defining conflicts of its time—the reverberations of which are still being felt today. “[Crowley] writes with a racy briskness that lifts sea battles and sieges off the page.”—The New York Times “Crowley chronicles the peak of Venice’s past glory with Wordsworthian sympathy, supplemented by impressive learning and infectious enthusiasm.”—The Wall Street Journal
Venice, the City of the Sea
Venice, the City of the Sea - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Venice, the City of the Sea write by Joseph Pennell. This book was released on 1914. Venice, the City of the Sea available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
VENICE THE CITY OF THE SEA,
VENICE THE CITY OF THE SEA, - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook VENICE THE CITY OF THE SEA, write by EDMUND FLAGG. This book was released on 1853. VENICE THE CITY OF THE SEA, available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
