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Read the mini-reviews on the next four pages, then buy the books at your neighborhood bookstore or--if you can't find them locally--by clicking on the "Order page" links that accompany some of the listings.

Notes:

  • We've reviewed some books in more detail; click the links in the listings below to read the illustrated reviews.
  • If a book is out of print (as some of these books are), there's a good chance that you'll be able to find a secondhand edition at an an online vendor like Amazon or Magers & Quinn, a family-owned independent bookseller in the U.S. that ships to customers around the world.


Venice book recommendations:
Background reading
General-interest  guidebooks
Special-interest guidebooks
Popular fiction

About the author:

Durant Imboden photo.Durant Imboden has written about Venice, Italy since 1996. He covered Venice and European travel at About.com for 4-1/2 years before launching Europe for Visitors (including Venice for Visitors) with Cheryl Imboden in 2001.

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