Travel writer David Downie arrived in Paris in 1986 on a one-way ticket, his head full of romantic notions. Curiosity propelled him daily from an unheated, seventh-floor walk-up garret near the Champs-lyses to the old Montmartre haunts of the doomed painter Modigliani, the tombs of Pre Lachaise cemetery, the luxuriant alleys of the Luxembourg Gardens, and the aristocratic le Saint-Louis midstream in the Seine. Ten books and a quarter-century later, he still spends several hours a day rambling through Paris and writing about ...
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Travel writer David Downie arrived in Paris in 1986 on a one-way ticket, his head full of romantic notions. Curiosity propelled him daily from an unheated, seventh-floor walk-up garret near the Champs-lyses to the old Montmartre haunts of the doomed painter Modigliani, the tombs of Pre Lachaise cemetery, the luxuriant alleys of the Luxembourg Gardens, and the aristocratic le Saint-Louis midstream in the Seine. Ten books and a quarter-century later, he still spends several hours a day rambling through Paris and writing about the city he loves. This book features thirty-one short prose sketches of people, places, and daily life in the City of Light.
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Fine. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 303 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white. Audience: General/trade. No previous owner's name. Clean, tight pages. No bent corners.
