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Piazza San Marco by Iain Fenlon
$49.99 NZD
Category: History | 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
St Peter's by Keith Miller
$29.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: Wonders of the World
The story of St Peter's begins in the 1st century CE with the Hippodrome of Nero, one of two places where the Apostle Peter may have been crucified. 250 years later Constantine the Great marked the supposed site of Peter's tomb in an ancient cemetery with a great basilica. That in turn was replaced over ...Show more
The Alhambra by Robert Irwin
$27.95 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Wonders of the World Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Read the Bldg Blog interview with Mary Beard about "The Wonders of the World series (Part I and Part II)". The Alhambra has long been a byword for exotic and melancholy beauty. In his absorbing new book, Robert Irwin, Arabist and novelist, examines its history and allure. The Alhambra is the only Muslim ...Show more
The Colosseum by Keith Hopkins
$32.99 NZD
Category: Non-fiction | 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
Wonders of the World by Francesco Boccia (ed)
$99.99 NZD
Category: Photography | Series: Wonders of the World
Man has never stopped to feel the need to demonstrate his creativity and genius, building throughout the world structures which seem of having become higher and higher, bigger and bigger through the ages. Following a detailed chronological order, this book goes from the Pyramids of Giza to the Parthenon ...Show more
Wonders of the World: Anna Karenina by L.N. Tolstoy
$26.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Wonders of the World S.
The story of Anna Karenina, a sophisticated woman who abandons her empty existence as a wife and turns to her lover Count Vronsky to fulfil her passionate nature - with tragic consequences.
Wonders of the World: Faust, Part One by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
$24.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Wonders of the World S.
Based on the fable of a man who traded his soul for superhuman powers and knowledge,
Wonders of the World: the Aeneid by Virgil
$24.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Wonders of the World S.
Describing the legendary origin of the Roman nation, this poem tells the tale of the Trojan prince Aeneas, who escaped with some followers after the fall of Troy and sailed to Italy. Here they settles and laid the foundations of the Roman empire.
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