Paris, Paris Journey Into the City of Light
eAudio - 2013
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-├ëlys├®es to the old Montmartre haunts of the doomed painter Modigliani, the tombs of P├¿re-Lachaise cemetery, the luxuriant alleys of the Luxembourg Gardens, and the aristocratic ├Äle Saint-Louis midstream in the Seine.Downie wound up living in the chic Marais district, married to the Paris-born American photographer Alison Harris, an equally incurable walker and chronicler. Ten books and a quarter-century later, he still spends several... hours every day rambling through Paris and writing about the city he loves. An irreverent, witty romp featuring thirty-one short prose sketches of people, places, and daily life, Paris, Paris: Journey into the City of Light...
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Blackstone Publishing
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- English
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- MP3 audiobook, OverDrive Listen audiobook
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File Size | 286 GB |
Parts | 9 |
ISBN | 9781481594257 |
Release Date | 11/1/2013 |
OverDrive Listen audiobook | |
File Size | 286 GB |
ISBN | 9781481594257 |
Release Date | 11/1/2013 |