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Piazza San Marco by Iain Fenlon
$39.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Series: Wonders of the World
Piazza San Marco is a dynamic open space organically connected to the buildings which frame it. It shows how much is lost if the ensemble is divided into the individual structures of Doges' Palace, Basilica of San Marco, Campanile and so on, each 'marvellous' in their own right but functionally separate ...Show more
Piazza San Marco by Iain Fenlon
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Wonders of the World
The Piazza San Marco is the most famous townscape in the West. This book is the first to consider it as a coherent whole, as a theatre in which the whole of Venetian history took place, to which it can serve as a highly evocative introduction. Piazza San Marco is a dynamic open space organically connect ...Show more
Stonehenge by Rosemary Hill
$39.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Series: Wonders of the World
Stonehenge is the most famous prehistoric monument in Europe visited by hundreds of thousands of people every year. The great stones remain compelling because they remain mysterious. 'God knows what their use was,' Pepys wondered in 1668. To greet the winter solstice, for goddess worship, funerary templ ...Show more
The Colosseum by Keith Hopkins
$26.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Wonders of the World
Imperial Rome was a warrior state. The Colosseum (opened in A.D. 80) was Rome's monument to warfare. Like a cathedral of death it towered over the city and invited its citizens, 50,000 at a time, to watch murderous gladiatorial games. It is now visited by two million visitors a year (Hitler was among th ...Show more
The Parthenon by Mary Beard
$26.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Wonders of the World
The ruined silhouette of the Parthenon on its hill above Athens is one of the world's most famous images. The 'looted' Elgin Marbles - in the British Museum, the Louvre, even Copenhagen - are a global cause celebre. But what actually are they?This engrossing book is the first of a small, occasional 'ser ...Show more
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