City Secrets Florence, Venice & the Towns of Italy

Robert Kahn

New York Review of Books, Jan 1, 2001 - Travel - 386 pages

Second in the highly-acclaimed City Secrets series, City Secrets Florence, Venice, and the Towns of Italy is a unique and sophisticated guidebook that compiles the recommendations of some of the world's most eminent authors, artists, architects, and others.

Whether writing about a painting, a restaurant, or a village's hidden byways, these experts' observations, taken together, amount to an exhilarating insider's look at both the well-known and the overlooked. The impassioned descriptions and informed perspectives in the pages of City Secrets Florence, Venice, and the Towns of Italy form an inspired tour of this most inspiring of countries.

About the author

Robert Kahn has worked as a musician, schoolteacher, legal worker in U.S. immigration prisons, track coach, freelance writer, and newspaper reporter and editor. He studied the saxophone with Joe Allard at the Manhattan School of Music, from which he received a master's degree in performance in 1976. He is the author of the nonfiction book, Other People's Blood: U.S. Immigration Prisons in the Reagan Decade, and An Honest Thief, a novella and stories. He is news editor for Courthouse News Service.

Bibliographic information

• Title: City Secrets Florence, Venice & the Towns of Italy; Volume 2 of City Secrets, 2
• Editor: Robert Kahn
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: New York Review of Books, 2001
• ISBN: 1892145014, 9781892145017
• Length: 386 pages
• Subjects: Art / Reference; Travel / Europe / Italy; Travel / Reference