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Paperback – 188 x 128 mm – 320 pages

Thirty-six colour illustrations and ninety-one in black and white, with six maps

ISBN 9781843681083

None of Venice’s innumerable chroniclers have portrayed the Serenissima’s character with quite such a combination of the scholarly, the informal and the intimate... Over the years thousands of readers, starting this book, have been relieved to encounter its famously undemanding approach to the city – ‘Generally the first thing to do in Venice is to sit down and have some coffee’: but by the time they get to the end of it, all the same, they will have learnt virtually everything that an educated stranger needs to know about the place, its art and its history, besides being subtly entertained throughout.

This magic book ... not only the best guide-book to that city ever written, but the best guide-book to any city ever written
Bernard Levin in The Times

An absolute must for anyone going to Venice
Evening Standard

One of the most delightful and original guides ever written about the city – any city, for that matter
Jan Morris

My all-time favourite guidebook 
James Daunt of Daunt’s Travel Books

Venice with passion 
The Guardian

The world’s best guide book 
William Boyd in the Spectator 

Quite brilliant 
Country Living

Deliciously readable 
Saga Magazine

Essential on any Venetian outing 
Sunday Telegraph

One of those miraculous books that gets passed by hand, pressed urgently on friends 
Sean French in the New Statesman           

J. G. Links’ little charmer 
The Lady

Essential reading 
Condé Nast Online      

The best guide to Venice 
Daily Telegraph

A trusty companion 
Ned Sherrin in the Mail on Sunday

The most readable guide to Venice 
John Diamond in The Sunday Times

Essential and much loved 
Anderson’s Travel Companion   

A world authority on Venice 
Jeffrey Bernard in the Spectator

The grand old man of Venice 
Brian Sewell in the Evening Standard