The Liquid Continent: Travels through Alexandria, Venice and Istanbul (Armchair Traveller) - Softcover

Woodsworth, Nicholas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 190996106X ISBN 13: 9781909961067

Publisher: Haus Publishing, 2016

Synopsis

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.
 

About this title

About the Author:

Nicholas Woodsworth, who lives in Aix-en-Provence, was the staff travel writer at the Financial Times from 1989 to 2003.
 

Review:

“A Mediterranean trilogy to cherish. . . . Woodsworth has a lively, accessible style.” (Guardian)

“[Woodsworth’s] an astute reporter with a dry humour and an impressive eye for detail.” (Sunday Telegraph)

About this edition

• Publisher: Haus Publishing
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 190996106X
• ISBN 13: 9781909961067
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 348