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Venice stands, as she loves to tell you, on the frontiers of the east and west, half-way between the setting and the rising sun. Goethe calls her "the market-place of the Morning and the Evening lands". Certainly no city on earth gives a more immediate impression of symmetry and unity, or seems more patently born to greatness.

Few men can say they have known Africa as Capstick has known itleading safaris through lion country; tracking man-eating leopards along tangled jungle paths; running for cover as fear-maddened elephants stampede in all directions. And of the few who have known this dangerous way of life, fewer still can recount their adventures with the flair of this former professional hunter-turned-writer.

Venice stands, as she loves to tell you, on the frontiers of the east and west, half-way between the setting and the rising sun. Goethe calls her "the market-place of the Morning and the Evening lands". Certainly no city on earth gives a more immediate impression of symmetry and unity, or seems more patently born to greatness.

"Jeg bærer med meg bildet av noe rikt, merkelig og enest��ende" er ordene Goethe avslutter og oppsummerer sitt opphold i Venezia med. Kommer du med fly og ser Venezia fra lufta, virker det nærmest naturstridig med byen som tilsynelatende ligger midt ute i havet, men byen er mer enn en by, den er blitt et begrep, en myte, et symbol, et ord som favner skjønnhet og undergang, vitalitet og dekadanse.