The Liquid Continent

Travels through Alexandria, Venice and Istanbul

Nicholas Woodsworth

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The Armchair Traveller at the BookHaus
15 September 2016

Travel & holiday; Travel writing

Series: Armchair Traveller

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.

By: Nicholas Woodsworth
Imprint: The Armchair Traveller at the BookHaus
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 25mm, Width: 15mm, Spine: 2mm
Weight: 255g
ISBN: 9781909961067
ISBN 10: 190996106X
Series: Armchair Traveller
Pages: 380
Publication Date: 15 September 2016
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Nicholas Woodsworth was Africa Correspondent of the Financial Times. His travelogues include Crossing Jerusalem: Journeys at the Centre of the World's Trouble and Seeking Provence: Old Myths, New Paths.