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The Most Beautiful Walk in the World
John Baxter
A Pedestrian in Paris
Harper Perennial
June 2011
On Sale: May 24, 2011
320 pages
ISBN: 0061998540
EAN: 9780061998546
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
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 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.
The Most Beautiful Walk in the World is your guide, par
excellence, to the true, off-the-beaten-path heart of the
City of Lights.
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