The most beautiful walk in the world : a pedestrian in Paris / John Baxter
- Bib ID:
- 8542220
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Baxter, John, 1939-, author
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Description:
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- New York : Harper Perennial, [2011]
- xv, 298 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
- ISBN:
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- 9780061998546 ((trade pbk. ;) (acid-free paper))
- 0061998540 ((trade pbk. ;) (acid-free paper))
- 9781780720432
- 1780720432
- Summary:
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"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."--Page 4 of cover.
- Full contents:
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- To walk the walk
- "Walking backwards for Christmas"
- What a man's got to do
- Heat
- Two geese a-roasting
- The Hollywood moment
- Hemingway's shoes
- The importance of being Ernest
- The Boulevardier
- The murderer's garden
- Going walkabout
- The music of walking
- A proposition at Les Editeurs
- The freedom of the city
- The man who knew too much
- The opium trail
- Postcards from Paris
- The ground beneath our feet
- Looking for Matisse
- Fish story
- The great La Cupole roundup
- Liver lover
- Paris when it sizzled
- A walk in the Earth
- Heaven and Hell
- Blue hour blues
- The mast of Montparnasse
- The fuzz on the peach
- To market
- The boulevard of crime
- The gates of night
- A little place in the Nineteenth
- A walk in time
- Aussie in the Métro
- A touch of strange
- The most beautiful walk in the world
- Appendix. Paris, mode d'emploi (Paris, a user's guide).
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2011
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