Venice & the Veneto
By: main contributors, Susie Boulton, Christopher Catling
Edition: New ed.
Series: Eyewitness travel guides; Eyewitness travel guides
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781405327787
Subjects: Guidebooks
Description: Discover Venice - the romantic city frozen in time and the Veneto - forward thinking and cosmopolitan region of Italy. Head from the Veneto Plain, past Verona to the Dolomites, and let this guide reveal cutaways and 3D diagrams of the glorious Palazzi of Venice, the magical Lake Garda and other gems.
Notes: Previous edition: 2006.

Includes index.

Maps and ill. on inside covers.
Table of contents: title: 1. The British and the Hellenes; 2. Gladstone and the Greeks: The Extraordinary Mission to the Ionian Islands 1858-1859; 3. The Abandonment of the Ionian Protectorate 1859-1864; 4. The End of Ottoman Power in Crete 1894-1898; 5. An Unfortunate Regime: The Experiment of Cretan Autonomy 1898-1906; 6. Britain, the Balkans, and the Climax of Cretan Union 1906-1913; 7. The Peculiarity of Cyprus 1878-1931; 8. The Dodecanese Experience 1939-1948; 9. Mastery and Despair: Cyprus 1931-1960; 10. Love, Deception, and Anglo-Hellenic Politics; Bibliography; Index.