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A Year in Paris: Season-By-Season in the City of Light by John Baxter
$32.99 AUD
Category: Narratives/Memoir | Reading Level: 4
From the incomparable John Baxter, the bestselling author of The Most Beautiful Walk in the World, a sumptuous and definitive portrait of Paris through the seasons, highlighting the unique tastes, sights, and changing personality of the city in spring, summer, fall, and winter. When the common people o ...Show more
Chronicles of Old Paris by John Baxter
$27.99 AUD
Category: Travel
Discover one of the world's most fascinating and beautiful cities through twenty-nine dramatic true stories spanning the rich history of Paris. From the headless walk of Saint Denis to the seances of the Surrealists, experience two thousand years of history as John Baxter leads eight walking tours follo ...Show more
Five Nights in Paris: After Dark in the City of Light by John Baxter
$24.99 AUD
Category: Narratives/Memoir
The preeminent expat writer on Paris and author of The Most Beautiful Walk in the World takes you on an unforgettable nocturnal stroll through five iconic Parisian neighborhoods and his own memories.John Baxter enchanted readers with his literary tour of Paris in The Most Beautiful Walk in the World. No ...Show more
French Riviera and Its Artists: Art, Literature, Love, and Life on the Cote D'Azur by John Baxter
$29.99 AUD
Category: Narratives/Memoir
Get swept up in the glitz and glamour of the French Riviera as author John Baxter takes readers tour through the star-studded cultural history of the Cote D'Azur. Learn about where Cezanne painted side by side with Renoir the views that inspired Matisse, the rich Riviera colors that changed Chagall's wo ...Show more
Golden Moments of Paris: A Guide to the Paris of the 1920s by John Baxter
$29.99 AUD
Category: World History/Politics
Following the popular "Chronicles of Old Paris," in "The Golden Moments of Paris," John Baxter has uncovered more fascinating true stories about the characters that gave Paris its "character" in the years between World War I and World War II. Explore more about one of the world's most beautiful and love ...Show more
Montmartre: Paris's Village of Art and Sin by John Baxter
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel | Series: Great Parisian Nieghborhoods | Reading Level: General Adult
In the second portrait of his series Great Parisian Neighborhoods, award-winning raconteur John Baxter leads us on a whirlwind tour of Montmartre, the hill-top village that fired the greatest achievements of modern art while also provoking bloody revolution and the sexual misbehavior that made Paris syn ...Show more
Paris at the End of the World: The City of Light During the Great War, 1914-1918 by John Baxter
$24.99 AUD
Category: World History/Politics | Series: P. S. Ser.
A preeminent writer on Paris, John Baxter brilliantly brings to life one of the most dramatic and fascinating periods in the city's history. From 1914 through 1918 the terrifying sounds of World War I could be heard from inside the French capital. For four years, Paris lived under constant threat of de ...Show more
The Most Beautiful Walk in the World: A Pedestrian in Paris by John Baxter
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
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 "literar ...Show more
The Perfect Meal: In Search of the Lost Tastes of France by John Baxter
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel | Series: P. S. Ser.
IACP Cookbook Award Winner (Culinary Travel) John Baxter's The Perfect Meal is part grand tour of France, part history of French cuisine, taking readers on a journey to discover and savor some of the world's great cultural achievements before they disappear completely. Some of the most revered and com ...Show more
We'll Always Have Paris: Sex and Love in the City of Light by John Baxter
$26.99 AUD
Category: Travel
For more than a century, pilgrims from all over the world seeking romance and passion have made their way to the City of Light. The seductive lure of Paris has long been irresistible to lovers, artists, epicureans, and connoisseurs of the good life. Globe-trotting film critic and writer John Baxter hear ...Show more
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