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  • Paris on Foot

    John Baxter's Insider Guide

    by John Baxter ...
    Paris is a city made for walkers. One can cross is on foot from Montmartre to Montparnasse in half a day – but why would you want to, when there are so many intriguing distractions, from cafes, restaurants and boutiques to museums, galleries, and sites associated with twenty centuries of history? In Paris on Foot, prize-winning travel author John Baxter, a thirty-five-year resident in the city, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Of Love and Paris

    Historic, Romantic and Obsessive Liaisons

    by John Baxter ...
    The French may not have invented love but they perfected it, and the laboratory in which they did so was Paris. James Joyce called the city "a lamp for lovers, hung in the wood of the world."From the Middle Ages, Paris has drawn those who wish to experience the limits of love – intellectual, spiritual, carnal. In Of Love and Paris, John Baxter turns the spotlight on some of them, from the medieval ... Read more

    $16.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • The Inner Man

    The Life of J.G. Ballard

    by John Baxter ...
    An explosive and perceptive biography of the British novelist J.G. BallardTo many people, J.G. Ballard will always be the schoolboy in Steven Spielberg's movie Empire of the Sun, struggling to survive as an internee of the Japanese during World War II. Others remember him as the author of CRASH, a meditation on the eroticism of the automobile and the car crash, which also became a film and a cause ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • 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

    $12.39 USD

  • We'll Always Have Paris

    Sex and Love in the City of Light

    by John Baxter ...

    $7.49 USD

  • George Lucas

    A Biography (Text Only Edition)

    by John Baxter ...
    The first major biography (since 1983) of the great movie mogul George Lucas, whose marketing techniques have transformed the film business. His fourth Star Wars film, The Phantom Menace, released in 1999, was perhaps the most eagerly awaited cinematic event of all time.George Lucas is one of the most innovative bigtime players on the movie scene. His three Star Wars films and the trio featuring ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • 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

  • 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

  • Shakespeare's Poetic Styles

    Verse into Drama

    by John Baxter ...
    First published in 1980.At their most successful, Shakespeare's styles are strategies to make plain the limits of thought and feeling which define the significance of human actions. John Baxter analyses the way in which these limits are reached, and also provides a strong argument for the idea that the power of Shakespearean drama depends upon the co-operation of poetic style and dramatic form. ... Read more

    $68.99 USD