The Most Beautiful Walk in the World by John Baxter audiobook

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

By  John Baxter
Read by  Graham Halstead

Tantor Audio 9780061998546

Unabridged

Format : Retail CD (In Stock)
  • $36.99

    ISBN: 9781665273121

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    ISBN: 9781665273138

Runtime: 5.58 Hours
Category: Nonfiction/Travel
Audience: Adult
Language: English

Summary

Summary

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.

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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Editorial Reviews

A splendid memoir . . . Reading The Most Beautiful Walk in the World is the next best thing to a Paris vacation. Boston Globe

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Author Bio: John Baxter

Author Bio: John Baxter

John Baxter has lived in Paris for more than twenty years. He is the author of multiple acclaimed memoirs about his life in France, including The Perfect Meal, The Most Beautiful Walk in the World, Immoveable Feast, and We’ll Always Have Paris. Baxter is also a film critic and biographer whose subjects have included the directors Fellini, Kubrick, Woody Allen, and Josef von Sternberg.

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Available Formats : Retail CD, MP3 CD
Category: Nonfiction/Travel
Runtime: 5.58
Audience: Adult
Language: English