10 libri simili a Venetian life
Travels in Arabia Deserta
Frontespizio di *Viaggi in Arabia Deserta* (edizione 1930)
Temi in comune: Voyages and travels, Manners and customs, Description and travel, Travel
Palmetto Leaves
Dopo la guerra civile, gli Stowe acquistarono una casa sulle rive del fiume St. Johns, nei pressi di Mandarin, in Florida. Per diversi anni la famiglia trascorse l'inverno in questa dimora meridionale, dove la Stowe trovò l'ispirazione per *Palmetto Leaves*, dato alle stampe nel 1872. Il volume si articola in una serie di articoli arricchiti da schizzi a inchiostro, offrendo uno sguardo intimo e…
Temi in comune: Description and travel, Travel, Social life and customs
America
An account of America from Rudyard Kipling while visiting San Francisco in the late 1800s.
Temi in comune: Manners and customs, Description and travel, Travel, Social life and customs
Our Old Home
«Our Old Home», una serie di schizzi inglesi di Nathaniel Hawthorne. Questo volume di schizzi incantevoli è stato pubblicato nel 1863 e, come dichiara lo stesso autore, raccoglie «alcuni degli aspetti esteriori del paesaggio e della vita inglese, in particolare quelli toccati da un fascino antico, a cui i suoi connazionali sono più sensibili rispetto alle persone presso cui tale fascino è di…
Temi in comune: Description and travel, Travel, Social life and customs
The travelling bachelor
Notions of the Americans in considered Cooper's first work of non-fiction despite a thin overlay of character and plot. Written in the form of a travel narrative, it addresses the widespread ignorance he encountered in Europe about the people and institutions of the United States. It is an exuberant chant of praise for American representative democracy, encapsulating the utopian vision that…
Temi in comune: Manners and customs, Description and travel, Travel, Social life and customs
Epistolae Ho-Elianae
Epistolae Ho-Elianae (or Familiar Letters) is a literary work by the 17th-century Anglo-Welsh historian and writer, James Howell. It was mainly written when Howell was in the Fleet Prison, during the 1640s; but its content reflects earlier travels he made from 1616 on behalf of a London glass factory.{{ODNBweb|id=13974|title=Howell, James|first=D. R.|last=Woolf}} It appeared in three volumes from…
Temi in comune: Manners and customs, Description and travel, Travel, Social life and customs
The troll garden
"This collection of Willa Cather stories - her first book of fiction and the capstone of her early career - is as relevant today as at the time of its initial publication. As different and individually distinguished as the seven stories may be, they share as their subject the role and status of the artist in American society.
The passions, ambitions, and pretensions, the cant and the pathos of…
Temi in comune: Manners and customs, Social life and customs
Omoo
Melville's continuing adventures in the South Seas—now for the first time in Penguin ClassicsFollowing the commercial and critical success of Typee, Herman Melville continued his series of South Sea adventure-romances with Omoo. Named after the Polynesian term for a rover, or someone who roams from island to island, Omoo chronicles the tumultuous events aboard a South Sea whaling vessel and is…
Temi in comune: Description and travel, Travel, Social life and customs
Views a-foot: or, Europe seen with a knapsack and staff
Temi in comune: Description and travel, Travel
Expedition Kon-Tiki
Nelle pagine di *Kon-Tiki*, Thor Heyerdahl trasporta il lettore nel cuore di una delle avventure più audaci del Novecento: la spedizione che vide l'esploratore e il suo equipaggio solcare l'oceano dalla costa sudamericana fino alle remote spiagge della Polinesia, navigando a bordo di una zattera costruita interamente in legno di balsa.
Temi in comune: Voyages and travels, Description and travel, Travel
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