A Venetian Island
Subtitle: Environment, History And Change In Burano (New Directions in Anthropology)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: January 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781845451561
Subjects: Social Science; Sociology; Italy; The Environment; Anthropology - Cultural
First sentence: From the mouths of the Adige to those of the Piave there stretches, at a variable distance of from three or five miles from the actual shore, a bank of sand, divided into long islands by narrow channels of sea.