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ORDER VENICE AN ODYSSEY — NOW!
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From the Prologue
[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”10px”][vc_column_text]I borrowed a little Venetian boat, a sandolo. My friend’s Mamma watched from her window over the canal, perhaps a bit apprehensively, as I rowed by in the slender vessel, silently gliding over the glassy waterways that crisscross Venice….[/vc_column_text][/qode_elliptical_slide][qode_elliptical_slide image=”482″ elliptical_section_background_color=”#faeedd”][vc_column_text]
From Chapter 3 – Scenes
[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”10px”][vc_column_text]Climate change may force Venice to face unimaginably hard choices, between saving the world heritage city and saving the lagoon. But this raises scary unknowns… How can you pull apart nature and man thoroughly intertwined for so many centuries without destroying them?[/vc_column_text][/qode_elliptical_slide][qode_elliptical_slide image=”482″ elliptical_section_background_color=”#faeedd”][vc_column_text]
From Chapter 11- Origins
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From Chapter 16 – Synanthropes
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From Chapter 17 – Abandoned
[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”10px”][vc_column_text]Woody vines crawl over the facades; collapsed roofs clutter the floors with debris and let sunlight and rain fall into the rooms and corridors still painted in unappealing, institutional pea green. No wonder novelists, film and TV producers and writers have adopted the island…[/vc_column_text][/qode_elliptical_slide][/qode_elliptical_slider][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][/vc_column][/vc_row]