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The Most Beautiful Walk in the World by Baxter, John

ISBN: 9780061998546 PUBLISHER: Harper Perennial FORMAT: Paperback PAGES: 32 PUBLICATION DATE: 1.05.2011 DIMENSIONS: 18.1 x 12.8 x 2.2 centimetres

DESCRIPTION: 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 cafes of Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and James Joyce; Pablo Picasso's underground Montmartre haunts; the bustling boulevards of the latenineteenthcentury 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 SaintGermaindesPres.

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