Brunetti's Venice: Walks with the City's Best-Loved by Toni Sepeda

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By Toni Sepeda

Follow Commissario Guido Brunetti, megastar of Donna Leon’s the world over best-selling secret sequence, on over a dozen walks that spotlight Venice’s church buildings, markets, bars, cafes, and palazzos

In Brunetti’s Venice, travelers and armchair tourists keep on with within the footsteps of Brunetti as he traverses town he is familiar with and loves. along with his acute eye for switch in his local urban, his fascination with the previous, his ear for language and his ardour for foods and drinks, and his familiarity with the darkish realities of crime and corruption, Brunetti is the right better half for any stroll throughout l. a. Serenissima.

Over a dozen walks, encompassing all six areas of Venice in addition to the lagoon, lead readers down calli, over canali, and during campi. vital destinations from the best-selling novels are highlighted and significant subject matters and characters are explored, all followed by way of poignant excerpts from the novels. it is a must-have spouse ebook for any lover of Donna Leon’s significant mysteries.

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For my part, I have seen America on the superhighways all through my years on the road, traveled its present and looked into its past, and today, grandparents waving good-bye at the window and the kids waving back, we’re setting off to see it again. THE ROADS ARE AMERICA IN THE ROADS OF AMERICA is the history of America. See the nation grow from an unmapped, just-purchased spread of western land to a wagon-train-crossed compilation of territories, to states bound by a few muddy highways, to the modern United States wired with interstates.

I had a full head of hair, hair that flowed like a remarkable cascade, or at least flowed. I was at my desk in New York City, where I worked for a travel magazine, though I never actually traveled. It was 1988, on a particular day when I was reading about the interstate highway system, believe it or not, reading about its length and breadth, imagining its extent, imagining what the rest of America looked like or felt like. And I was reading about a beautiful roadside waterfall, falling 620 feet from the top of a gorge down into a little stream that, as you see when you finally get there, runs beneath the interstate and into the Columbia River.

For a few years, we crossed the country in a 1992 Toyota Camry; my wife arranged for that car, a car that I could not become emotionally attached to but that nonetheless did the three-thousand-mile job when our children were really young. The car that I was instrumental in procuring was a 1989 Volvo wagon, eleven years old when I paid the guy too much for it. After I negotiated the (bad) deal, my wife picked up the car with our son and they pulled into traffic and the headlights and interior lights began blinking and the horn began honking and it stopped, less than a mile from the guy who had my check.

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