Venice, A Travellers Companion av John Julius Norwich

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<p>Henry James wrote of Venice: ''You desire to embrace it, to caress it, to possess it . . .'' whereas Mark Twain found St Mark''s ''so ugly . . . propped on its long row of thick-legged columns, its back knobbed with domes, it seems like a vast, warty bug taking a meditative walk''. <br><br>Reactions to Venice have been, throughout the ages, astonishingly different. John Julius Norwich has put together a dazzling anthology, drawing on the writings of Byron, Goethe, Wagner, Casanova, Jan Morris, Robert Browning and Horace Walpole, among many others. <br><br>The pieces range from the sixth century, when the early lagoon-dwellers lived ''like sea-birds in huts, built on heaps of osiers'' to the exquisite city of eighteenth-century revellers and nineteenth-century art lovers. The city''s many diferent guises are shown as both its citizens and visitors saw them. <br><br>This wonderful volume from the Traveller''s Reader series also contains maps, engravings and notes on history, art, arch