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  • The Most Beautiful Walk in the World

    A Pedestrian in Paris

    by John Baxter ...
    Thrust into the unlikely role of professional "literary walking tour" guide, an expat in Paris provides the most irresistibly witty and revealing tour of the city in years.In this enchanting Paris memoir, acclaimed author and long-time 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 ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • De Niro

    A Biography

    by John Baxter ...
    The life of Hollywood’s number one movie actor, the elusive Robert De Niro, who shuns the limelight and rarely gives interviews, written by the leading film critic and biographer of Spielberg, Kubrick, Woody Allen and George Lucas.Robert De Niro is the pre-eminent Hollywood character performer of our time: film portraits like the young Don Vito Corleone in THE GODFATHER II, Jake La Motta in RAGING ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • A Year in Paris

    Season by Season in the City of Light

    by John Baxter ...
    A NEW YORK TIMES "SUMMER READING" PICK!From the incomparable John Baxter, award-winning author of the bestselling 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 of France revolted in 1789, one of the first ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A Pound of Paper

    Confessions of a Book Addict

    by John Baxter ...
    In the rural Australia of the fifties where John Baxter grew up, reading books was disregarded with suspicion, owning and collecting them with utter incomprehension. Despite this, by the age of eleven Baxter had 'collected' his first book - The Poems of Rupert Brooke. He'd read the volume often, but now he had to own it. This was the beginning of what would become a major collection and a lifelong ... Read more

    Was $12.99 USD Now $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Golden Moments of Paris

    A Guide to the Paris of the 1920s

    by John Baxter ...
    In The Golden Moments of Paris, John Baxter uncovers fascinating true stories about the characters that gave Paris its "character" in the years between World War I and World War II. Explore one of the world's most beautiful and loved cities in 26 fact-filled, humorous, and dramatic stories about the famed Années Folles—the Crazy Years—at the turn of the 20th century in Paris. Learn about Gertrude ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Five Nights in Paris

    After Dark in the City of Light

    by John Baxter ...
    An irresistible nighttime tour of Paris, past and present, by the bestselling author of The Most Beautiful Walk in the WorldEvery guidebook to Paris is crammed with sites to see during the day, but visitors are often cast adrift once the sun sets and the Louvre, Notre Dame, and other tourist attractions shut their doors. Sadly for those who have retreated into their hotel rooms, it's only when ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Perfect Meal

    In Search of the Lost Tastes of France

    by John Baxter ...
    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 complex elements of French cuisine are in danger of disappearing as old ways of agriculture, butchering, and cooking fade and are forgotten. In ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Montmartre

    Paris's Village of Art and Sin

    by John Baxter ...
    Series Book 2 - Great Parisian Neighborhoods
    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 synonymous with sinHigh on the northern edge of Paris, Montmartre has always attracted bohemians, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • French Riviera and Its Artists

    Art, Literature, Love, and Life on the Côte d'Azur

    by John Baxter ...
    Get swept up in the glitz and glamour of the French Riviera as author and filmmaker John Baxter takes readers on a whirlwind tour through the star-studded cultural history of the Côte d'Azur that's sure to delight travelers, Francophiles, and culture lovers alike.Readers will discover the dramatic lives of the legendary artists, writers, actors, and politicians who frequented the world's most ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Paris at the End of the World

    The City of Light During the Great War, 1914-1918

    by John Baxter ...
    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 destruction. And yet in its darkest hour, the City of Light blazed more brightly than ever. It’s ... Read more

    $13.49 USD

  • Montparnasse

    Paris's District of Memory and Desire

    by John Baxter ...
    Series Book 3 - Great Parisian Neighborhoods
    In the third portrait of his series Great Parisian Neighborhoods, award-winning raconteur John Baxter takes readers on a dazzling excursion of Montparnasse.By the IACP Award-winning author of the national bestseller The Most Beautiful Walk in the World, MONTPARNASSE reveals the history and present delights of the iconic neighborhood that is best associated with the vibrant 1920-30s-era Paris—a ... Read more

    Was $11.99 USD Now $6.99 USD

  • Eating Eternity

    Food, Art and Literature in France

    by John Baxter ...
    "Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour," wrote Talleyrand. That Napoleon's most gifted advisor should speak so highly of eating says much about the importance of food in French culture. From the crumbs of a madeleine dipped in tisane that inspired Marcel Proust to the vast produce market where Emile Zola set one of his finest novels, the French have ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus