VENICE FOR PLEASURE J. G. Links 1 873429 40 1 £14.99 272pp 55 illustrations 32 colour plates ' 5 maps Pbk 187 x 127mm landscape 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 One of the most delightful and original guides ever Jan Morris, Classic Country Life One of the great travel books The Art Newspaper A friend Daily Mirror 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 A minor classic The Sunday Times 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 My all time favourite guidebook James Daunt of Daunt's Travel Books Essential reading Condé Nast Online A trusty companion Ned Sherrin in the Mail on Sunday The little classic Good Book Guide An absolute must for anyone going to Venice Evening Standard The most readable guide to Venice John Diamond in The Sunday Times Essential and much loved Anderson's Travel Companion Peerless Elizabeth de Stroumillo in Saga The best guide to Venice Daily Telegraph A world authority on Venice Jeffrey Bernard in the Spectator The grand old man of Venice Brian Sewell in the Evening Standard Let's do it again, J. G. Sue Lawley, in The Sunday Telegraph One of the most delightful and original guides ever Country Life A LEGENDARY GUIDEBOOK: OVER 120,000 COPIES SOLD THE ONLY GUIDEBOOK EVER READ ON BBC RADIO DRAMA 7TH EDITION, NOW FURTHER REVISED AND UPDATED ILLUSTRATED WITH EXTENSIVE COLOUR This is the seventh revised edition of a guide book that has become a minor classic, remaining in print for over thirty years. Its simple object, in the author's own words, is to guide the reader to places he might otherwise miss and, having reached them, to tell him what he might wish to know and then leave him, preferably at a café, to admire, to enjoy, and perhaps be disappointed. The illustrations show the visitor, as he confronts a view, what his predecessors of a hundred, two hundred or five hundred years ago saw from the same point. Two sections of colour plates have been added, showing how the beauty of Venice inspired the 18th-century view painters. The main part of the book describes four walks, each of which can be completed in one day. Maps, old and new, are provided for each walk. The introduction deals with the Piazza S. Marco and its neighbourhood, and appendices are devoted to the public boat services, food and drink, and books about Venice. One chapter is entitled 'Venice for Children's Pleasure'. J. G. Links (1904-1997) completed work on this revised and newly illustrated edition of his classic text shortly before he died. His other works include: The Book of Fur (1956), an abridgement of Ruskin's Stones of Venice (reissued 2001 by Pallas Athene), Venice (1967), The Ruskins in Normandy (1968), Views of Venice by Canaletto (1971), Townscape Painting and Drawing (1972), Canaletto (1994), and The Soane Canalettos (1998). He was married to Mary Lutyens, editor of Effie in Venice (reissued 2000 by Pallas Athene).