Full name: The Most Beautiful Walk in the World: A Pedestrian in Paris

Author: John Baxter Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Travel, History Culture: France Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads Barns&Noble eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780061998546 0061998540

From the author of Immoveable Feast and We'll Always Have Paris comes a guided tour of the most beautiful walks through the City of Light, including the favorite walking routes of the many of the acclaimed artists and writers who have called Paris their home. Baxter highlights hidden treasures along theSeine, treasured markets at Place d'Aligre, the favorite ambles of Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, and Sylvia Beach, and more, in a series of intimate vignettes that evoke the best parts of Paris's many charms. Baxter's unforgettable chronicle reveals how walking is the best way to experience romance, history, and pleasures off the beaten path . . . not only of La Ville-Lumière but also, perhaps, of life itself. Similar books: The Flaneur by Edmund White The Only Street in Paris by Elaine Sciolino We'll Always Have Paris by John Baxter A Paris Year by Janice MacLeod Paris, Paris by David Downie Paris Letters by Janice MacLeod A Passion for Paris by David Downie The Rough Guide to Paris by Ruth Blackmore Our Paris by Edmund White Paris Was Ours by Penelope Rowlands Paris to the Moon by Adam Gopnik Paris, My Sweet by Amy Thomas Stuff Parisians Like by Olivier Magny Almost French by Sarah Turnbull Lonely Planet Paris by Steve Fallon Baghdad without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia by Tony Horwitz City of Djinns by William Dalrymple In Search of King Solomon's Mines by Tahir Shah The River at the Center of the World by Simon Winchester The Age of Kali by William Dalrymple