The most beautiful walk in the world : a pedestrian in Paris

The Resource The most beautiful walk in the world : a pedestrian in Paris
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The most beautiful walk in the world : a pedestrian in Paris
Title remainder
a pedestrian in Paris
Statement of responsibility
John Baxter
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Subject
Language
eng
Summary
In this memoir 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 cafes of Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and James Joyce; Pablo Picasso's underground Montmartre haunts; the bustling boulevards of the late-nineteenth-century flaneurs ; 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-Pres. Paris, by custom and design, is a pedestrian's city-each block a revelation, every neighborhood a new feast for the senses, a place rich with history and romance at every turn
Biography type
contains biographical information
Cataloging source
DLC
Dewey number
914.404/84
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
no index present
LC call number
DC707
LC item number
.B39 2011
Literary form
non fiction

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