Venice In Context: The Independent Traveler's Guide to Venice (Europe: In Context) by Robert S. Wayne, Robert S. Wayne (Photographer)

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This guide offers the history- and art-loving traveler 12 narrative tours of Venice using audio CDs alongside easy-to-follow maps, detailed diagrams of churches, and helpful information about how to get around. With more than 12 million tourists sp<%END%>ing a day or less in the city, time is of the essence. Two guided audio CDs allow indep<%END%>ent travelers the freedom to go at their own pace, picking and choosing what they want to see and when they want see it. Each carefully selected tour-whether through the famed St. Mark's Square or other sites often overlooked by the busy traveler-brings to life the city's rich history and heritage with fascinating stories about historical figures, artists, and musicians. Included is a comprehensive historical and artistic time line and glossary.

Author Biography: Robert Wayne is an attorney and the former managing editor of the Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Venice in Context . . . brings the guidebook and audio tour together in a single, well-integrated package.—Durant Imboden

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Venice In Context has paved the way toward a new generation of travel guides.—Victor Cohen

Library Journal

Venice has always been one of Italy's top travel destinations. It does, however, present some unique challenges, including a confusing geography, unusual transportation options (vaporetto, gondola), and an overwhelming array of sightseeing choices. In response, Wayne, an Atlanta-based attorney who has traveled extensively across the European continent, has put together an exciting guide with a unique approach sure to satisfy both new and experienced visitors. The first in the "Europe in Context" series-conceived and written by Wayne-the guidebook is accompanied by two CDs that contain 12 audio walking tours, each offering useful and easy-to-follow information (maps are provided for each tour). Wayne has successfully adapted museum audio tour techniques to a tourist's walking tours needs-and since many travelers carry a portable CD player anyway, technology will not be a problem. Beyond the 12 tours, additional chapters provide historical background, travel planning tips, information on the vaporetti, web sites to consult for further travel information, and, most useful of all, a listing of admission fees and opening times for the attractions covered on the walking tours. A complete and satisfying tour guide for travel planners or travel takers, this is recommended for all travel collections in both public and academic libraries. [For a full media kit, visit the high-tech web site www.europeincontext.com, which offers in-depth information about the project as well as sample audio clips on MP3.-Ed.]-Olga B. Wise, Austin, TX Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

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