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The Liquid Continent

Travels through Alexandria, Venice and Istanbul

New Edition

Distributed for Haus Publishing

The Liquid Continent

Travels through Alexandria, Venice and Istanbul

New Edition

This omnibus edition brings together Nicholas Woodsworth’s critically acclaimed Mediterranean trilogy into a single volume for the first time, allowing readers to fully appreciate the scope of Woodsworth’s search for a distinctively Mediterranean “cosmopolitanism.” Combining travel narrative, history, and reflection on contemporary lives and cultures, Woodsworth finds an intimacy, a garrulous warmth, and an extraordinary sociability as he travels from Alexandria through Venice and finally installs himself in a former Benedictine monastery in Istanbul overlooking the Golden Horn. Responding to this experience, he argues that the sea should not be seen as an empty space surrounded by Europe, Asia, and Africa, but rather as a single entity, a place from whose coastlines people look inwards over the water to each other—for it has its own cities, its own life, its own way of being.
 

348 pages | 5 x 8 | © 2016

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Reviews

“A Mediterranean trilogy to cherish. . . . Woodsworth has a lively, accessible style.”

Guardian

“[Woodsworth’s] an astute reporter with a dry humour and an impressive eye for detail.”

Sunday Telegraph

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