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Author : Alice Barnett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 14 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book In a Gondola written by Alice Barnett and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Laura Morelli
Publisher : Laura Morelli
ISBN 13 : 098936710X
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (893 download)
Download or read book The Gondola Maker written by Laura Morelli and published by Laura Morelli. This book was released on 2014-03-03 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning historical fiction set in 16th-century Venice -Benjamin Franklin Digital Award -IPPY Award for Best Adult Fiction E-book -National Indie Excellence Award Finalist -Eric Hoffer Award Finalist -Shortlisted for the da Vinci Eye Prize From the author of Made in Italy comes a tale of artisanal tradition and family bonds set in one of the world's most magnificent settings: Renaissance Venice. Venetian gondola-maker Luca Vianello considers his whole life arranged. His father charted a course for his eldest son from the day he was born, and Luca is positioned to inherit one of the city’s most esteemed boatyards. Soon he will marry the daughter of an artisan prow-maker, securing a key business alliance for the family. But when Luca experiences an unexpected tragedy in the boatyard, he believes that his destiny lies elsewhere. Soon he finds himself drawn to restore an antique gondola with the dream of taking a girl for a ride. The Gondola Maker brings the centuries-old art of gondola-making to life in the tale of a young man's complicated relationship with his master-craftsman father. Lovers of historical fiction will appreciate the authentic details of gondola craftsmanship, along with an intimate first-person narrative set against the richly textured backdrop of 16th-century Venice. "I'm a big fan of Venice, so I appreciate Laura Morelli's special knowledge of the city, the period, and the process of gondola-making. An especially compelling story." --Frances Mayes, author of Under the Tuscan Sun "Laura Morelli has done her research, or perhaps she was an Italian carpenter in another life. One can literally smell and feel the grain of finely turned wood in her hands." --Pamela Sheldon Johns, author of Italian Food Artisans "Romance, intrigue, family loyalty, pride, and redemption set against the backdrop of Renaissance Italy." --Library of Clean Reads "Beautiful, powerful evocation of the characters, the place, and the time. An elegant and thoroughly engaging narrative voice." --Mark Spencer, author of Fiction Club: A Concise Guide to Writing Good Fiction
Author : Donna Leon
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0802192521
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Gondola written by Donna Leon and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The international bestselling author delivers “a delightful look at the gondola as cultural icon, marvel of construction and object of romance and mystery” (Judith Malafronte, Opera News). Of all the trademarks of Venice—and there are many, from the gilded Basilica of San Marco to the melancholy Bridge of Sighs—none is more ubiquitous than the gondola. In Gondola, the acclaimed “American with the Venetian heart,” tells the fascinating story of this famous boat, complete with gorgeous full-color illustrations (The Washington Post). First used in medieval Venice as a deftly maneuverable getaway boat, the gondola evolved over the centuries into a floating pleasure palace, bedecked in silk, that facilitated the romantic escapades of the Venetian elite. Sumptuary laws turned it black—a gleaming, elegant hue for a boat manned by robust gondolieri in their iconic black-and-white-striped shirts and straw hats. Each boat is carefully fashioned in a maestro’s workshop—though Leon also recounts a tale of an American friend who attempted to make a gondola all on his own. Once its arched prow pushes off from the dock, the single Venetian at its oar just might break out in a barcarole, the popular songs sung by gondolieri. Please note this ebook edition does not include audio recordings.
Author : Renee Riva
Publisher : WaterBrook
ISBN 13 : 9781400070602
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (76 download)
Download or read book Guido's Gondola written by Renee Riva and published by WaterBrook. This book was released on 2005 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guido, a young rat, loves giving tourists rides in his small gondola in Venice, Italy, until he is persuaded to add a motor, then buy a large boat, then an even larger one, until he realizes he misses the small things in life.
Author : Laura Morelli
Publisher : Scriptorium
ISBN 13 : 9781942467328
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (673 download)
Download or read book The Gondola Maker written by Laura Morelli and published by Scriptorium. This book was released on 2021-02-11 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FROM A USA TODAY BESTELLING AUTHOR Award-winning historical fiction set in 16th-century Venice Benjamin Franklin Digital Award IPPY Award for Best Adult Fiction E-book National Indie Excellence Award Finalist Eric Hoffer Award Finalist Shortlisted for the da Vinci Eye Prize From the author of Made in Italy comes a tale of artisanal tradition and family bonds set in one of the world's most magnificent settings: Renaissance VeniceVenetian gondola-maker Luca Vianello considers his whole life arranged. His father charted a course for his eldest son from the day he was born, and Luca is positioned to inherit one of the city's most esteemed boatyards. Soon he will marry the daughter of an artisan prow-maker, securing a key business alliance for the family. But when Luca experiences an unexpected tragedy in the boatyard, he believes that his destiny lies elsewhere. Soon he finds himself drawn to restore an antique gondola with the dream of taking a girl for a ride. The Gondola Maker brings the centuries-old art of gondola-making to life in the tale of a young man's complicated relationship with his master-craftsman father.Lovers of historical fiction will appreciate the authentic details of gondola craftsmanship, along with an intimate first-person narrative set against the richly textured backdrop of 16th-century Venice.
Author : Timothy Schaffert
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1594633436
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (946 download)
Download or read book The Swan Gondola written by Timothy Schaffert and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For readers of Water for Elephants or The Night Circus, a lush and thrilling romantic fable about two lovers set against the scandalous burlesques, midnight séances, and aerial ballets of the 1898 Omaha World’s Fair. On the eve of the World’s Fair, Ferret Skerritt, ventriloquist by trade, con man by birth, is unsure how the fair’s events will change him or his city. Omaha still has the marks of a filthy Wild West town, even as it attempts to achieve the grandeur and respectability of nearby Chicago. But when he crosses paths with the beautiful and enigmatic Cecily, his purpose shifts, and the fair becomes the backdrop to their love affair. One of a traveling troupe of actors that has descended on the city, Cecily works in the Midway’s Chamber of Horrors, where she loses her head hourly on a guillotine, playing Marie Antoinette. And after closing, she rushes off, clinging protectively to a mysterious carpetbag, never giving Ferret a second glance. But a moonlit ride on the swan gondola, a boat on the lagoon of the New White City, transforms everything when the fair’s magic begins to take its effect.
Author : Ch. Didier Gondola
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253020808
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Tropical Cowboys written by Ch. Didier Gondola and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-10 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An innovative and original study that sheds light on masculinity, youth culture, performative violence, and the circuit of global imagery.” —Stephan F. Miescher, author of Making Men in Ghana During the 1950s and 60s in the Congo city of Kinshasa, there emerged young urban male gangs known as “Bills” or “Yankees.” Modeling themselves on the images of the iconic American cowboy from Hollywood film, the Bills sought to negotiate lives lived under oppressive economic, social, and political conditions. They developed their own style, subculture, and slang and as Ch. Didier Gondola shows, engaged in a quest for manhood through bodybuilding, marijuana, violent sexual behavior, and other transgressive acts. Gondola argues that this street culture became a backdrop for Congo-Zaire’s emergence as an independent nation and continues to exert powerful influence on the country’s urban youth culture today. “Aligns social banditry with popular cultural formations and subcultures. This has been a longstanding feature of Didier Gondola’s scholarship that is of great interest.” —Peter J. Bloom, University of California, Santa Barbara “Its approach in terms of poverty and unemployment combined with a subtle interest in performance and the creation of an original culture makes this book an eye-opener. Both the dramatic subject and the author’s vivid style make it a pleasure to read and also food for thought regarding issues that haunt not only Africa but also the world at large.” —American Historical Review
Author : Nicky Pellegrino
Publisher : Aurora Large Print
ISBN 13 : 9781787823181
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (231 download)
Download or read book A Year at Hotel Gondola written by Nicky Pellegrino and published by Aurora Large Print. This book was released on 2020-06 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kat Black has never lived a quiet life. She's an adventurer: a food writer travelling the world visiting far-flung places and eating unusual things. Now she's about to embark on her biggest adventure yet - a relationship. She has fallen in love with an Italian man and is moving to Venice for a year to help him run his guesthouse, Hotel Gondola, where she hopes to put down some roots for the first time in years. Kat will write all about her adventure: the food she eats, the recipes she collects, the people she meets, and the man she doesn't know all that well but is going to make a life with. But as Kat ought to know by now, the thing about adventures is that they never go the way you expect them to...
Author : Tomas Tranströmer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781933382449
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (824 download)
Download or read book Sorgegondolen written by Tomas Tranströmer and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first collection of poetry Nobel Prize winning Transtromer completed after the debilitating stroke he suffered in 1990. Since its publication, it has sold over 30,000 in Sweden alone. This new bilingual edition offers readers Transtromer's seminal work for the first time as a single version. Transtromer is one of the world's most translated poets with books appearing in numerous editions in over fifty languages, and the recipient of a plethora of literary awards, most recently the Nobel Prize for Literature 2011.
Author : John R. Bratten
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781585441471
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (414 download)
Download or read book The Gondola Philadelphia and the Battle of Lake Champlain written by John R. Bratten and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this work, archaeologist John Bratten details the gunboat's history, construction, armament, tools, utensils, personal items, and rigging elements. He takes advantage of contemporary records to describe the Philadelphia's artifacts and presents for the first time an analysis of photographs taken during the 1935 recovery of the boat. Finally, he assesses the replica Philadelphia II, built at the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum during 1989-91 in order to provide an opportunity to evaluate how the gondola was constructed, manned, sailed, and propelled by sweeps."--Jacket.
Author : Ian Falconer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0857073494
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (57 download)
Download or read book Olivia Goes to Venice written by Ian Falconer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-03-03 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her latest adventure, Olivia, everyone's favourite little pig, is off the Venice, the place of fine art, carnival and gondolas for a family holiday to remember. With her very own discerning eye for style, Olivia takes the beautiful city of Venice by storm. From dodging pigeons in the Piazza San Marco, to eating an abundance of the most delicious Italian gelato at Carneval, and barelystaying afloat in a gondola, Olivia uncovers the wonderful delights of Venice with that very special 'Olivia' style and flair!
Author : Elizabeth Anne McCauley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780914660217
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (62 download)
Download or read book Gondola Days written by Elizabeth Anne McCauley and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the end of the nineteenth century, a remarkable group of artists, writers and patrons gathered regularly at the Palazzo Barbaro in Venice, Italy. While Venice had long attracted wealthy tourists from across Europe and America, a particularly rich expatriate culture flourished at this time. In the 1880s, Daniel and Ariana Curtis of Boston purchased and restored the Palazzo Barbaro, where they lived in self-imposed exile. The Palazzo eventually became the center of a fascinating circle of American and English personalities living in Venice: the poet Robert Browning; Katharine de Kay Bronson of Newport, a writer greatly interested in local Venetian craft; Sir Austen Henry Layard, an archaelogist and an important collector of Renaissance paintings. Isabella and John Gardner, also of Boston, rented the Palazzo Barbaro every other year, beginning in 1884. A myriad of fascinating figures such as the painters John Singer Sargent, James McNeil Whistler and Claude Monet; the connoisseur Bernhard Bereson; writers Henry James, Paul Bourget, Vernon Lee, and a galaxy of socialites frequently joined this rich and culturally diverse group. As the Gardner Museum commemorates its centennial, Gondola Days accompanies an exhibition which will display the artistic products of this fascinating time and place. It will present this beloved Venetian palace as a source of inspiration for the Gardner, which, under Isabella's direction, became Boston's own Palazzo Barbaro: a Venetian gothic structure, with flowering gardens, full of paintings and objects, but also enlightened by working artists, poets and thinkers. This book explores the distinctive interaction of this small group of individuals, and their special connections with Venice. The exhibition will display paintings, watercolors, drawings, and sketchbooks, as well as photographs (many made by the visitors to the Palazzo), literary manuscripts, letters, albums, and other documents. SELLING POINTS: A collection of paintings, watercolours, drawings and sketchbooks, photographs, manuscripts and letters Accompanies an exhibition at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum from 21 April 2004 - 15 August 2004, which explores the source of inspiration for Fenway Court Showcases the artistic products of this fascinating time and place Demonstrates the fascination that arose around the Palazzo Barbaro and the interaction it stimulated between American and English personalities in Venice 177 illustrations
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 878 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts written by and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Browning
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3734087015
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Dramatic Romances written by Robert Browning and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2019-09-25 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Dramatic Romances by Robert Browning
Author : Renaud Dillies
Publisher : Nbm Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9781561636112
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (361 download)
Download or read book Bubbles & Gondola written by Renaud Dillies and published by Nbm Publishing Company. This book was released on 2011 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charlie is a mouse who's trying to write but has a block. Writing is a solitary endeavour. A bird named Solitude comes to visit him to keep him company. The reader is never sure he actually exists but in Charlie's mind - but Solitude brings him out into the world, dares him to experience the unknown, unblocking his little existence. In a drama about the blank page for Charlie, who so wants to make the world more beautiful with his writing, the reader is transported into a tender and moving tale with a twinge of melancholy which is sweet, warm and ultimately elevating.
Author : Jonathan Gash
Publisher : A Lovejoy Novel
ISBN 13 : 9781472102966
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (29 download)
Download or read book The Gondola Scam written by Jonathan Gash and published by A Lovejoy Novel. This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Antiques and women are really the only things that I'm interested in. Getting them in the right order can be a problem, because even a fake antique can be absolutely fascination - especially if it drives someone to commit murder. Antiques and women are what led me to Venice on the trail of the killer, and there my modest talents saw me blagging my way into a job as a tour guide as well as lending a hand as a sculptor.
Author : Laura Morelli
Publisher : Scriptorium
ISBN 13 : 9781942467298
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (672 download)
Download or read book The Painter's Apprentice written by Laura Morelli and published by Scriptorium. This book was released on 2021-02-11 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Venice, 1510. The daughter of a master gilder hides a secret inside a renowned painter's studio, but the Black Death foils her plans.
