James C. Davis
James C. Davis taught history at the University of Pennsylvania for thirty-four years. He is the author of four other books, dealing with Venice, the early history of European nations, and the lives of peasants and blue-collar workers. [... more]
Harper Collins |
Insight Fleximap Venice
 Insight Map Venice: The guidebook maps will get you to Piazza San Marco, but they won't be of much help in finding that off-the-beaten-path mask store that a friend recommended. The Insight Map for Venice is very, very detailed. And it also has some [... more]
CDN$9.32
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Laurie Graham
Laurie Graham's nine novels include The Future Homemakers of America and Gone with the Windsors. She lives in Venice, Italy. A: There was only one way I wanted to tell this story; from the heart of the action and narrated by someone who reports ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
Dark Reflections: The Water Mirror
In Venice, magic is not unusual. Merle is apprenticed to a magic mirror maker, and Serafin-a boy who was once a master thief-works for a weaver of magic cloth. Now, Venice is under siege by the Egyptian Empire; its terrifying mummy warriors and ... [... more]
Random House |
Manuel Komroff
Marco Polo's account of his journey throughout the East in the thirteenth century was one of the earliest European travel narratives, and it remains the most important. The merchant-traveler from Venice, the first to cross the entire continent of ... [... more]
Random House |
Ingrid Rowland
From the revelations of classical statuary pulled from the Roman soil as the popes began rebuilding the city in the fifteenth century, to the myth of serenity that Venice constructed to conceal its physical and political fragility, to bloody yet ... [... more]
Random House |
Ingrid D. Rowland
From the revelations of classical statuary pulled from the Roman soil as the popes began rebuilding the city in the fifteenth century, to the myth of serenity that Venice constructed to conceal its physical and political fragility, to bloody yet ... [... more]
Random House |
Michelle Lovric
Michelle Lovric is the winner of the London Arts Writer's Award, the editor of the New York Times bestseller Love Letters, and the author of the widely acclaimed novel The Floating Book. She divides her time between Venice and London, where she ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
Rough Guide Venice 6e
Superb! ...Move over, Lonely Planet!: Wow! Just got back from Venice, where we used this guide to find our pensione, restaurants (NO tourist ones), gelato, churches, the best tartuffi (truffles) in the world, and of course museums, attractions, and [... more]
CDN$26.99
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Venice Observed
Ugh: Talk about taking the joy out of an experience. I read this book prior to a week-long trip to Venice. This book quite simply accomplished none of its objectives. It is a poor "guidebook" and is poorly written and uninteresting in terms of [... more]
CDN$15.00
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Knopf Guide: Venice
Tiny font = Tons of text: I just got my own Knopf Guide for Venice. No more having to renew at the library. While the Eyewitness guides are great for zeroing in on a desired sight, the Knopf series has much more detail about the place in question. I like [... more]
CDN$35.00
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A Thousand Days in Venice
ponderous tale of weighty self-reflection: everyone else seems to love this book - the star I awarded it was only in recognition of the wonderful city of venice in which it is set and the not frequent enough references to food and recipes contained [... more]
CDN$16.50
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