The Most Beautiful Walk in the World

A Pedestrian in Paris

Omschrijving

Thrust into the unlikely role of professional "literary walking tour" guide, an expat writer provides the most irresistibly witty and revealing tour of Paris in years.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.
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Schrijver
Baxter, John
Titel
The Most Beautiful Walk in the World
Uitgever
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Jaar
2011
Taal
Engels
Pagina's
320
Gewicht
227 gr
EAN
9780061998546
Afmetingen
191 x 133 x 25 mm
Bindwijze
Paperback

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