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21) This is Paris
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60 pages : color illustrations ; 32 cm
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English
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A pictorial tour of the "city of light" presenting drawings of the people, historic monuments, and modern sights of Paris.
24) Provence A-Z
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A sourcebook on Provence by the writer who has made the region his own. Though organized from A to Z, this is hardly a conventional work of reference. It is rather a selection of those aspects of Provence that Peter Mayle in almost twenty years there has found to be the most interesting, curious, delicious, or downright fun. In more than 170 wide-ranging entries he writes about architecture, expatriates, Aix-en-Provence, the Provençal character,...
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xviii, 317 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
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English
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Chronicles the author's pilgrimmage with his wife from Paris to the Pyrenees and ultimately to the sanctuary of Saint James, a journey on which they followed age-old trails through France rather than the commercialized Spanish route.
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There is a moment every morning when the countryside takes a pause. The birds stop singing, the dogs choke back their barks, and cats pause mid-stride. Everything waits. It's in this vacuum that a man working alone has the best chance of finding truffles.The plot of land was perfect, just what they'd been looking for, offering expansive views across the valley and within walking distance of the local village. There was only one small problem - there...
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"Told in a series of stylish, original essays, 100 Places in France Every Woman Should Go is for the serious Francophile, the woman dreaming of a trip to Paris, and also for those who love crisp stories well-told. Like all great travel writing, this volume goes beyond the guidebook and offers insight not only about where to go but why to go there. A combination of keen travel advice, memoir and meditations on the glories of France and the many great...
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xi, 370 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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English
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"In the spring of 1978, as a young journalist in Paris, Elaine Sciolino was seduced by a river. In The Seine, she tells the story of that river through its rich history and lively characters-a bargewoman, a riverbank bookseller, a houseboat- dweller, a famous cinematographer known for capturing the river's light. She patrols with river police, rows with a restorer of antique boats, discovers a champagne vineyard, and even dares to swim in the Seine....
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736 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 21 cm + 1 pull-out map
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English
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A latest edition shares comprehensive profiles of top-recommended destinations from Notre-Dame and the Louvre to Versailles and the Eiffel Tower, offering related advice for local accommodations and how to avoid tourist traps.
35) Paris
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226 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 18 cm + 1 pull-out map (folded).
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English
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"Lonely Planet's Experience Paris is your guide to unforgettable experiences and local surprises. Indulge your appetites at sensational bistros, immerse yourself in artistic masterworks and experience the heights of haute couture - all guided by local experts with fresh perspectives. Uncover Paris's best experiences and get away from the everyday!"--Publisher's description.
36) Orphic Paris
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175 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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"A poetic portrait of Paris that combines prose poetry, diary, and memoir by award-winning writer and poet Henri Cole. Henri Cole's Orphic Paris combines autobiography, diary, essay, and prose poetry with photographs to create a new form of elegiac memoir. With Paris as a backdrop, Cole, an award-winning American poet, explores with fresh and penetrating insight the nature of friendship and family, poetry and solitude, the self and freedom. Cole writes...
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307 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
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English
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In this compelling portrait of a city in transition, Joan DeJean shows that by 1700 Paris had become the capital that would transform forever our conception of the city and of urban life.
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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...
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Swapping his native San Francisco for the City of Light, travel writer David Downie arrived in Paris in 1986 on a one-way ticket, his head full of romantic notions. Curiosity and the legs of a cross-country runner propelled him daily from an unheated, seventh-floor walk-up garret near the Champs-Élysées to the old Montmartre haunts of the doomed painter Modigliani, the tombs of Père-Lachaise cemetery, the luxuriant alleys of the Luxembourg Gardens,...
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