Author: Jill Butler
Publisher: Workman Publishing
Keywords: paris, cat, american, artistic, paintbrush, adventures
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 1994-01-03
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 1563055244
ISBN-13: 9781563055249
Whimsical watercolors highlight the delightful tale of Paintbrush, an expatriate cat living in Paris, who lives the life of a bohemian artist with his friend Mon Ami, a wooden cat on wheels.
Author: Jill Butler
Publisher: Globe Pequot
Keywords: paris, way, discovering, guide, wandering
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2005-11-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0762738049
ISBN-13: 9780762738045
Paris is a city of wonder, its many faces welcoming creative exploration. For travellers searching for the city’s soul who want more than the tried-and-true tourist sites, "Wandering Paris" is the ticket to discovering their own true and authentic Paris. Through charming illustrations and evocative text, artist Jill Butler (Rendez-Vous with France) presents her beloved city in myriad moods, allowing a perfect match for any particular day. Each outing starts with a point of departure and a map, and ends with suggestions for dinner or an aperitif. Examples include: A water adventure; ; An
Author: Noel R. Fitch
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffi
Keywords: paris, traveler, literary, guide, walks, hemingway
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 1992-03-15
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0312071132
ISBN-13: 9780312071134
Walks in Hemingway’s Paris is the perfect companion to the most romantic and fascinating of cities for those who want to experience Paris beyond the Eiffel Tower and Notre Dame. Covering all the area of Paris that Hemingway and his fellow expatriates once roamed from Left Bank to Right, Noel Riley Fitch provides an intimate visit to major Parisian landmarks as well as to out-of-the-way cafes, hotels and residences immortalized by "Papa" and his friends.
Authors:Emile Zola, Ernest Alfred Vizetelly,
Publisher: Digireads.com
Keywords: paris, ventre, thin, belly
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2009-01-01
List price: $9.99
ISBN-10: 1420933671
ISBN-13: 9781420933673
The third novel in Zola’s twenty-volume series entitled "Les Rougon-Macquart," this story revolves around and within the 21-acre market Les Halles Centrales of Paris. The starving scholar Florent has escaped his unwarranted exile on Devil’s Island, and he is alternately entranced and disgusted by his refuge in ’the belly of Paris.’ Zola describes the market and Florent’s experiences in the midst of it with his characteristically captivating comprehension, foreshadowing the total mastery of working-class speech in his later works. Florent makes a friend of Claude L
Author: George M Taber
Publisher: Scribner
Keywords: paris, revolutionized, wine, tasting, france, california, judgment, historic
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2006-11-21
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0743297326
ISBN-13: 9780743297325
The Paris Tasting of 1976 will forever be remembered as the landmark event that transformed the wine industry. At this legendary contest -- a blind tasting -- a panel of top French wine experts shocked the industry by choosing unknown California wines over France’s best.George M. Taber, the only reporter present, recounts this seminal contest and its far-reaching effects, focusing on three gifted unknowns behind the winning wines: a college lecturer, a real estate lawyer, and a Yugoslavian immigrant. With unique access to the main players and a contagious passion for his subject, Taber r
Authors:Leonard Pitt, Alexandre Gady,
Publisher: Counterpoint
Keywords: paris, historic, heart, journey, walks, lost
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2006-05-24
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 1593761031
ISBN-13: 9781593761035
When he discovered that the city he lived in for many years was actually entirely rebuilt during the mid-1800s, Leonard Pitt plunged into Paris’s history and began photographing what he learned had changed. Eventually, he led tours and gave lectures on the demolition and reconstruction that changed the city forever. Walks Through Lost Paris chronicles Paris’s great periods of urban reconstruction through four walking tours. With a special focus on the work of Georges-Eugene Haussmann, this book provides a history of each site along with the motives behind the urban redesign and the
Author: Streetwise Maps
Publisher: Streetwise Maps
Keywords: paris, map, street, france, center, laminated, streetwise, city
Published: 2010-01-01
List price: $7.95
ISBN-10: 0935039252
ISBN-13: 9780935039252
Streetwise Paris Map - Laminated City Center Street Map of Paris, France - Folding pocket size travel map with integrated metro map including lines & stationsThis map covers the following areas:Main Paris Map 1:14,000Paris Metro MapMap of FranceThere are more clichs about Paris than there are tourists at the Louvre, but the fact is that underneath each overused hackneyed clich is a glistening kernel of truth. The City of Light, the City of Love and the City of Romance, familiar platitudes, but once you experience it for yourself you understand why. There is a je ne sais quoi allure to th
