Venice Against the Sea: A City Besieged

by John Keahey

Venice is sinking - six feet over the past 1,000 years. The reasons for this are many. Although there is a natural geologic tendency for some sinking, humans have exacerbated the problem by exploiting on a massive scale underground water resources for industrial purposes. Coupled with these events - and perhaps most significant - are climatic changes all over the globe. The heating of the atmosphere after the last ice age, dramatically speeded up...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312265948
• ISBN13: 9780312265946
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Very good, gets a little technical towards the end

The first three-quarters+ of the book is excellent. It provides a good overview of Venetian history and explains how/why the city is essentially sinking. The author then gets into a TREMENDOUS amount of depth (no pun intended) concerning funding for a proposed gate project, various changes of Italian government, etc.-- probably more than you need to know, certainly more than I needed. Overall, though, the book was very good, even for someone who knows Venice as well as I do.