Libreria Acqua Alta

This guide to Libreria Acqua Alta in Venice follows Luigi Frizzo, a wanderer from Vicenza who opened this secondhand bookshop in 2002 despite the landlord's warning that the building floods every year. You'll hear how he built the whole shop around that risk, stacking thousands of books into a gondola, small boats, and salvaged bathtubs instead of ordinary shelves. Along the way there's a stray cat or two that never left, and a courtyard tied to the comic-book sailor Corto Maltese.