ISBN: 0522852556
Author: Jonathan Walker
Language: English
Publisher: Melbourne University Publishing; First Edition edition (April 1, 2009)
Pages: 288
Category: Historical
Subcategory: Biography
Rating: 4.1
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Size Fb2: 1269 kb
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Perfect for upper level undergraduates and graduate students. Pistols! Treason! Murder!" is on the ROROTOKO list of cutting-edge intellectual nonfiction. Professor Walker's book interview ran here as the cover feature on February 3, 2010. One person found this helpful.
Pistols! Treason! Murder! book. Anxiety is high in the city of Venice. In untangling the career of the master spy Vano, Walker invites the reader into the historian's task of piecing together evidence from incomplete archival sources, making sense of motives, coming to terms with the story, and knowing when the job is done. Aspiring historians will find the methods Walker used to uncover this fascinating story invaluable in their own historical quests.
Jonathan Walker (born 1799 in Cape Cod, Massachusetts - died May 1, 1878 near Muskegon, Michigan), aka "The . The poem praised Walker's actions.
Jonathan Walker (born 1799 in Cape Cod, Massachusetts - died May 1, 1878 near Muskegon, Michigan), aka "The Man with the Branded Hand", was an American reformer who became a national hero in 1844 when he was tried and sentenced as a slave stealer following his attempt to help seven runaway slaves find freedom. He was branded on his hand by the United States Government with the markings . Ehrlich, Eugene and Gorton Carruth.
Together with Dan Hallett, he has recently finished an illuminated novel,Five Wounds, which will be published in 2010. He is also working on a photographic essay on Venice entitled Let Us Burn the Gondolas: Venice as a Modern City. Country of Publication.
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An original historical work, this fascinating biography of the 17th-century Venetian spy Gerolamo Vano is told through the blending of fact and fantasy-surviving surveillance reports and .
An original historical work, this fascinating biography of the 17th-century Venetian spy Gerolamo Vano is told through the blending of fact and fantasy-surviving surveillance reports and ancient archives mesh with comic strips, imagined conversations, and vignettes of the author’s self-reflection while on a pub crawl in modern Venice.
Walker, Jonathan, 1969-. Pistols! Treason! Murder! : the rise and fall of a master spy, Jonathan Walker ; illustrations created by Dan Hallett.
An original historical work, this fascinating biography of the 17th-century Venetian spy Gerolamo Vano is told through the blending of fact and fantasysurviving surveillance reports and ancient archives mesh with comic strips, imagined conversations, and vignettes of the author’s self-reflection while on a pub crawl in modern Venice. With great diligence and careful research, this biography pushes the boundaries of how history is told while drawing insightful parallels between spy and historian and uncovering the coded world of politics, espionage, terror, and intense paranoia found in Venice in the 1600s.
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