Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams

by Charles King

Book Overview

Italian merchants, Greek freedom fighters, and Turkish seamen; a Russian empress and her favorite soldier-bureaucrats; Jewish tavern keepers, traders, and journalists--these and many others seeking fortune and adventure rubbed shoulders in Odessa, the greatest port on the Black Sea.

Here a dream of cosmopolitan freedom inspired geniuses and innovators, from Alexander Pushkin and Isaac Babel to Zionist activist Vladimir Jabotinsky and immunologist...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393070840
• ISBN13: 9780393070842
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.5"