Grand Canal by Alice Austin

"Venice's Grand Canal is depicted in this tunnel book, highlighting the chaotic mix of local fauna, gondolas, traghettos and bridges vying for space on the waterway, with the ominous visage of a cruise ship lurking on the horizon." - Alice Austin: 
Panel descriptions:
          Cover: an eye shape that you look through into the Grand canal scene.
          First: an egret waiting for a fish with a background of a building facade laced with quatrefoils.
          Second: winged cherub and a traghetto (ferry) making its regular crossing of the Grand canal. The figures in the gondola depict how Venetians remain standing for the short crossing.
          Third: the famed Rialto bridge with a rower and a small boat.
          Fourth: the characteristic vase-shaped chimneys of Venice.
          Fifth: looking down the Grand Canal with an enormous cruise ship ominously looming over the scene.
          Sixth: the backside of the tunnel book - The Lion's Mouth, or bocce dei Leone - depicting letter boxes found that were placed in prominent locations, where citizens could slip a note betraying the names of enemies of the Republic.
          Sides: rowers in racing gondolas training for the "Regatta Storica".