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Venice
Milton Grundy
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Description for Venice
Paperback. Serving as a travel guide to Venice, this book divides Venice up into seven walks and four excursions, with eight maps, so that people can see the maximum number of sights they wish to in a limited time. It also includes illustrations that are taken from old engravings and paintings. Editor(s): de la Mare, Giles. Num Pages: 248 pages, 8 maps, 62 b/w & line, 30 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; WTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 159 x 20. Weight in Grams: 626.
"Venice: The Anthology Guide" is the sixth edition, completely updated, revised and reset, of Milton Grundy's perennially fresh classic travel guide to the city. It is unlike any other guide, for it conducts visitors round Venice using the observations and opinions of famous writers and art historians to enlighten them. Among the people it quotes are Vasari, Ruskin, Berenson, Wittkower, Dickens, Henry James, A.J.C. Hare, Otto Demus, Ernst Gombrich, Michael Levey, Cecil Gould, Hugh Honour, James Morris and Alan Bennett. It includes thirty new colour illustrations, twenty of them by Sarah Quill, the renowned photographer of Venice. The book divides ... Read more
"Venice: The Anthology Guide" is the sixth edition, completely updated, revised and reset, of Milton Grundy's perennially fresh classic travel guide to the city. It is unlike any other guide, for it conducts visitors round Venice using the observations and opinions of famous writers and art historians to enlighten them. Among the people it quotes are Vasari, Ruskin, Berenson, Wittkower, Dickens, Henry James, A.J.C. Hare, Otto Demus, Ernst Gombrich, Michael Levey, Cecil Gould, Hugh Honour, James Morris and Alan Bennett. It includes thirty new colour illustrations, twenty of them by Sarah Quill, the renowned photographer of Venice. The book divides ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Giles de la Mare Publishers United Kingdom
Number of pages
248
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781900357265
SKU
V9781900357265
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-58
About Milton Grundy
Milton Grundy, who practises as a barrister, was born in St Helens, Merseyside. He first visited Venice in 1958 and has been returning frequently ever since. He was for some years a member of the Charter Members Committee of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, and he is Chairman of the Warwick Arts Trust in London.
Reviews for Venice
"'...[it] provides an opportunity to see the city as it was and is today. Using this guide, you can scour the waterways and be enlightened by well-known writers and art-historians on practically every aspect surrounding this architecturally and culturally rich city...a brilliant anthological guide to Venice, which informs the user of the best walks through [it].' Geographical Magazine 'Seeking out ... Read more