The Liquid Continent

Author : Nicholas Woodsworth
Publisher : Haus Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1909961078
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Liquid Continent written by Nicholas Woodsworth and published by Haus Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-15 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This omnibus edition brings together Nicholas Woodsworth’s critically acclaimed Mediterranean trilogy into a single volume for the first time, allowing readers to fully appreciate the scope of Woodsworth’s search for a distinctively Mediterranean “cosmopolitanism.” Combining travel narrative, history, and reflection on contemporary lives and cultures, Woodsworth finds an intimacy, a garrulous warmth, and an extraordinary sociability as he travels from Alexandria through Venice and finally installs himself in a former Benedictine monastery in Istanbul overlooking the Golden Horn. Responding to this experience, he argues that the sea should not be seen as an empty space surrounded by Europe, Asia, and Africa, but rather as a single entity, a place from whose coastlines people look inwards over the water to each other—for it has its own cities, its own life, its own way of being.

Author : Nicholas Purcell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Liquid Continent written by Nicholas Purcell and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nicholas Woodsworth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Liquid Continent: Venice written by Nicholas Woodsworth and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all the great powers of the Mediterranean past, Venice was the most commercially ambitious. Her great wealth and sophisticated culture were products of a commercial empire that stretched from the Adriatic to the ports of the Levant, and her long history is studded with sea dramas of war, crusade and intrigue.

Author : Nicholas Woodsworth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Liquid Continent: Istanbul written by Nicholas Woodsworth and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under the Ottomans, who ruled the eastern Mediterranean for 500 years, cosmopolitan life in Istanbul took a particularly vigorous and productive form, creating a web of connection and identity that is conspicuously absent in our own era.

Author : Nicholas Woodsworth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781905791460
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Liquid Continent written by Nicholas Woodsworth and published by . This book was released on 2008-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the third in a trilogy of travelogues covering the ancient modern ports on the coast of the Mediterranean.

Author : Nicholas Purcell
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9781405103053
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Liquid Continent written by Nicholas Purcell and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nicholas Woodsworth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Liquid Continent: Alexandria written by Nicholas Woodsworth and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Liquid Continent, whose three volumes can be read independently, combines travel narrative, history and reflection on the contemporary Mediterranean. Beginning in Alexandria, the author travels overland around the eastern rim of the sea.

Author : Michelle Apotsos
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317275551
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Architecture, Islam, and Identity in West Africa written by Michelle Apotsos and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-20 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architecture, Islam, and Identity in West Africa shows you the relationship between architecture and Islamic identity in West Africa. The book looks broadly across Muslim West Africa and takes an in-depth study of the village of Larabanga, a small Muslim community in Northern Ghana, to help you see how the built environment encodes cultural history through form, material, and space, creating an architectural narrative that outlines the contours of this distinctive Muslim identity. Apotsos explores how modern technology, heritage, and tourism have increasingly affected the contemporary architectural character of this community, revealing the village’s current state of social, cultural, and spiritual flux. More than 60 black and white images illustrate how architectural components within this setting express the distinctive narratives, value systems, and realities that make up the unique composition of this Afro-Islamic community.

Author : Catherine Asaro
Publisher : LUNA
ISBN 13 : 1426818823
Total Pages : 573 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Night Bird written by Catherine Asaro and published by LUNA. This book was released on 2008-07-01 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries the women of Aronsdale have lived freely among the green and misted valleys. Creatures of exotic beauty and sensuality, they possess powerful skills of enchantment…and young Allegro is no different. But her life—and Aronsdale's independence—is threatened when Jazid nomads invade, carrying Allegro into the desert as a prized trophy…or worse. Until an unexpected ally falls under her spell. From the moment feared Jazid warrior Markus Onyx sees the alluring beauty, he knows he has found his queen. But even the promise of love cannot quell Allegro's determination to save her homeland. Summoning her powers, she casts herself north—out of passion's grip—and into the dark heart of conflict.…

Author : Geological Society of South Africa
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Proceedings of the Geological Society of South Africa written by Geological Society of South Africa and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: