Whether youre a first-time tourist or seasoned traveller its virtually impossible to find yourself alone in Venice. The citys much architectural splendour its winding canals ancient piazzas & charming markets are marvellous to visit--and crowded with people in every season. In these hauntingly beautiful photographs Christopher Thomas takes readers on a solitary tour of the city Lord Byron once called the Most Serene Republic." As he did with his previous volume New York Sleeps Thomas uses long-term exposures & a now discontinued large-format Polaroid film to capture places bereft of humans in the early hours of the day. Readers can almost feel the ghosts of Titian Shakespeare Vivaldi & Henry James wandering these canals & cobblestones; & they can experience the city as it was intended to be: an ingeniously planned aesthetically delightful oasis of beauty light shadows
- & serenity."