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The Liquid Continent: Travels Through Alexandria, Venice and Istanbul
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Artikel-Nr:
9781909961067
Veröffentl:
2016
Erscheinungsdatum:
15.09.2016
Seiten:
348
Autor:
Nicholas Woodsworth
Gewicht:
272 g
Format:
211x137x18 mm
Serie:
Armchair Traveller
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Nicholas Woodsworth, who lives in Aix-en-Provence, was the staff travel writer at the Financial Times from 1989 to 2003.
Combining travel narrative, history and reflection on contemporary Mediterranean life, Woodsworth finds an intimacy, a garrulous warmth and a near-tribal sociability that belongs uniquely to the cities on the fringe of the Mediterranean. This sea should not be seen as an empty space surrounded by Europe, Asia and Africa, but as a single entity, a place from whose coastlines people look not outwards, to this country or that capital, but inwards over the water to each other. Setting out from Alexandria on a journey marked by lively, unpredictable encounters, Nicholas Woodsworth discovers traces of an older, more sophisticated existence and asks what these vibrant, cosmopolitan cities and their inhabitants owe to the sea.