| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xv, 298 pages : illustrations, maps ; 19 cm |
| Summary |
In this enchanting memoir, acclaimed author and long-time Paris resident John Baxter remembers his yearlong experience of giving "literary walking tours" through the city. Baxter sets off with unsuspecting tourists in tow on the trail of Paris's legendary artists and writers of the past. Along the way, he tells the history of Paris through a brilliant cast of characters: the favorite cafés of Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and James Joyce; Pablo Picasso's underground Montmartre haunts; the bustling boulevards of the late-nineteenth-century flâneurs; the secluded "Little Luxembourg" gardens beloved by Gertrude Stein; the alleys where revolutionaries plotted; and finally Baxter's own favorite walk near his home in Saint-Germain-des-Prés. |
| Subject |
Paris (France) -- Description and travel.
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Walking -- France -- Paris.
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Baxter, John, 1939- -- Travel -- France -- Paris.
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Paris (France) -- Social life and customs.
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| ISBN |
9780061998546 (trade pbk. : acid-free paper) : $14.99 |
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0061998540 (trade pbk. : acid-free paper) |
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