05265cam a2200493 4500 234933923 TxAuBib 20140806120000.0 ||||||s2012||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780679644262 0679644261 B0051ANPSI Amazon 56047b8c-1894-46fb-b9d5-1e21c691a816 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 615989 OverDrive (Product ID) 33948 615989 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Crowley, Roger. City of Fortune [Libby] : How Venice Ruled the Seas. Random House Publishing Group, 2012. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 16MB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. History. Military. Nonfiction. "Crowley...writes with a racy briskness that lifts sea battles and sieges off the page, so much so that at times his sentences seem in danger of bursting their seams". HTML:New York Times Book Review. "Roger Crowley chronicles the peak of Venice's past glory with Wordsworthian sympathy, supplemented by impressive learning and infectious enthusiasm.". HTML:Wall Street Journal. "Crowley has an astonishing gift for narration; his account is as exciting as any thriller.". HTML:John Julius Norwich, The Wall Street Journal. "Crowley's page-turner history . . . deserves to be this [season's] most recommended nonfiction book. . . . Rich in character, action, surprise, what transpired in those few desperate weeks is one of history's best and most thrilling stories.". HTML:The Dallas Morning News. "[Crowley] offers exquisitely delicate insights and undulating descriptive passages. Yet in his descriptions of the battles, his prose is so taut and tense, it is impossible not to be caught up in the harrowing action.". HTML:The Christian Science Monitor. "A masterly narrative that captures the religious fervor, brutality and mayhem of this intensive contest.". HTML:Kirkus Reviews (starred review.) "Gripping . . . This is a rare combination of a history book that reads with the detail, insight and pace of a novel.". HTML:The Tampa Tribune. HTML:"The rise and fall of Venice's empire is an irresistible story and [Roger] Crowley, with his rousing descriptive gifts and scholarly attention to detail, is its perfect chronicler."--The Financial Times The New York Times bestselling author of Empires of the Sea charts Venice's astounding five-hundred-year voyage to the pinnacle of power in an epic story that stands unrivaled for drama, intrigue, and sheer opulent majesty. City of Fortune traces the full arc of the Venetian imperial saga, from the ill-fated Fourth Crusade, which culminates in the sacking of Constantinople in 1204, to the Ottoman-Venetian War of 1499--1503, which sees the Ottoman Turks supplant the Venetians as the preeminent naval power in the Mediterranean. In between are three centuries of Venetian maritime dominance, during which a tiny city of "lagoon dwellers" grow into the richest place on earth. Drawing on firsthand accounts of pitched sea battles, skillful negotiations, and diplomatic maneuvers, Crowley paints a vivid picture of this avaricious, enterprising people and the bountiful lands that came under their dominion. From the opening of the spice routes to the clash between Christianity and Islam, Venice played a leading role in the defining conflicts of its time--the reverberations of which are still being felt today. "[Crowley] writes with a racy briskness that lifts sea battles and sieges off the page."--The New York Times "Crowley chronicles the peak of Venice's past glory with Wordsworthian sympathy, supplemented by impressive learning and infectious enthusiasm."--The Wall Street Journal. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2015-08-06 20:32:42. http://westtexas.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=56047b8c-1894-46fb-b9d5-1e21c691a816 http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/560/47B/8C/CityofFortuneHowVeniceRuledtheSeas9780679644262.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=56047B8C-1894-46FB-B9D5-1E21C691A816&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/560/47B/8C/CityofFortuneHowVeniceRuledtheSeas9780679644262.epub Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=56047B8C-1894-46FB-B9D5-1E21C691A816&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/560/47B/8C/CityofFortuneHowVeniceRuledtheSeas9780679644262.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=56047B8C-1894-46FB-B9D5-1E21C691A816&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) CCTYL