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

ISBN-13: 9780061998546 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 320 str.

John Baxter

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"Aman with a great appreciation of what makes Paris tick." --NewsdayFromthe author of Immoveable Feast and We'll Always Have Paris comes aguided tour of the most beautiful walks through the City of Light, includingthe favorite walking routes of the many of the acclaimed artists and writerswho have called Paris their home. Baxter highlights hidden treasures along theSeine, treasured markets at Place d'Aligre, thefavorite ambles of Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, and Sylvia Beach, andmore, in a series of intimate vignettes that evoke the best parts of Paris'smany charms. Baxter's unforgettable chronicle reveals how walking is the bestway to experience romance, history, and pleasures off the beaten path . . . notonly of La Ville-Lumiere, but also, perhaps, of life itself.