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 spending a day or less in the city, time is of the essence. Two guided audio CDs allow independent 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.
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"Venice in Context . . . brings the guidebook and audio tour together in a single, well-integrated package." -- Durant Imboden, veniceforvisitors.com
"A very useful guide for the first-time visitor to Venice." -- Theodore K. Rabb, chairperson and professor of history, Princeton University
"An evocative and superbly conceptualized travel guide, not just for the practical realities . . ., but also for . . . armchair travelers." -- Midwest Book Review
"An exciting guide with a unique approach sure to satisfy both new and experienced visitors." -- Library Journal
"Venice In Context has paved the way toward a new generation of travel guides." -- Victor Cohen, RebeccaReads.com
"A very useful guide for the first-time visitor to Venice." -- Theodore K. Rabb, chairperson and professor of history, Princeton University
"An evocative and superbly conceptualized travel guide, not just for the practical realities . . ., but also for . . . armchair travelers." -- Midwest Book Review
"An exciting guide with a unique approach sure to satisfy both new and experienced visitors." -- Library Journal
"Venice In Context has paved the way toward a new generation of travel guides." -- Victor Cohen, RebeccaReads.com
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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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Worth it for the audio guide alone!,
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This review is from: Venice in Context: The Independent Traveler's Guide to Venice (Paperback)
The entire book has good amount of useful practical information but the unique aspect is the 12 audio tours. We extracted the audio tours off of the CD's and loaded them on our iPod nanos. It works like a charm. Occasionally we wished that the script was a bit less general but it is an excellent precursor of what is probably the wave of the future. Why follow guides who are trying to impart the information in three languages (perhaps with a heavy accent) and practically running the too-large tour group past the attractions when you can use this methodology?
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This review is from: Venice in Context: The Independent Traveler's Guide to Venice (Paperback)
It was magical. My husband and I travelled to Venice last month, and the audio guide Venice in Context was fabulous. Instead of weaiting for a tour, and trying to hear and follow the guide, we went at our own pace. It was easy to follow and use. A great and eceonomical way to tour a city, I recommend it!
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Useful travel guide,
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This review is from: Venice in Context: The Independent Traveler's Guide to Venice (Paperback)
Venice In Context provides travelers with twelve narrated walking tours of Venice. This CD has information about what travelers can see and how to get around Venice on their own. tour brings to life the city's romance and explores its rich history and artistic heritage with stories and anecdotes about the lives of historical figures, artists, and musicians that will greatly enrich the travel experience. The series is narrated by Joel Godard, a veteran New York actor who appears as the announcer on NBC's popular Late Night with Conan O'Brien.
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