Things Seen in Venice: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
Things Seen in Venice by Lonsdale Ragg; Laura Marie Ragg: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 7 original MP3 tracks, 2:50:21 running time and a link to listen.
Things Seen in Venice, credited to Lonsdale Ragg; Laura Marie Ragg, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.
About the work
The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:
LibriVox recording of Things Seen in Venice by Lonsdale Ragg; Laura Marie Ragg. Read in English by Phil Benson Venice, once among the most powerful states of the Western world, now a much-visited but still romantic city of canals, architecture and art. Most European cities have changed so much that a 1920 guidebook would be of little practical use, but not so Venice. Lonsdale and Laura Ragg were residents of the city - where Lonsdale was chaplain of St. George's English church from 1905 to 1909 - and they knew it well. Their guide brings its buildings and canals, its campi and its hidden campielli, to life in a surprisingly contemporary way. Try listening to Chapter 2 as your vaporetto chugs along the Grand Canal from the railway station to the Rialto bridge, only slightly faster than it would have done a hundred years ago! ( Phil Benson) Summary by Phil Benson
Recording facts
- Recording title: Things Seen in Venice
- Author credits: Lonsdale Ragg; Laura Marie Ragg
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 7
- Listed recording duration: 2:50:21
Catalogue topics
- Italy
- venice
- architecture
Track guide
- 01 - First Impressions — 14:38
- 02 - The Grand Canal — 29:13
- 03 - The Heart of Venice — 28:01
- 04 - Venice on Foot — 22:02
- 05 - The Lagoon — 23:25
- 06 - Fasts and Festivals — 25:06
- 07 - Varia — 27:56
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