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A Year in Paris: Season-By-Season in the City of Light by John Baxter
35.00 NZD
Category: Travel
From the incomparable John Baxter, the bestselling author of 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 o ...Show more
Complete Poems by James K. Baxter (edited by John Weir)
200.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
James K. Baxter, one of New Zealand's greatest poets, began writing poetry when he was a seven-year-old pupil at Brighton Primary School. By the time his first book, Beyond the Palisades, was published when he was eighteen, he had written more than 600 poems. His life's work, contained in this four-volu ...Show more
Five Nights in Paris: After Dark in the City of Light by John Baxter
30.00 NZD
Category: Travel
The preeminent expat writer on Paris and author of The Most Beautiful Walk in the World takes you on an unforgettable nocturnal stroll through five iconic Parisian neighborhoods and his own memories.John Baxter enchanted readers with his literary tour of Paris in The Most Beautiful Walk in the World. No ...Show more
Montmartre: Paris's Village of Art and Sin by John Baxter
26.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: Great Parisian Nieghborhoods
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 syn ...Show more
Montparnasse: Paris's District of Memory and Desire by John Baxter
30.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: 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 del ...Show more
Poems to a Glass Woman 1944-1945 by James K Baxter; John Weir (ed.)
28.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Written in 1944-5, these poems record the immediate impact of James K. Baxter's first serious love affair. The sequence is published for the first time on the 40th anniversary of the poet's death, 22 October 2013
Saint-Germain-Des-Pres: Paris's Rebel Quarter by John Baxter
27.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: Great Parisian Nieghborhoods
From the bestselling author of The Most Beautiful Walk in the World comes this first book in an exciting new series of narrative "biographies" of Paris's great neighborhoods, beginning with Saint-Germain-des-Pres-the city's "rebel quarter," for centuries a center of artistic, intellectual, and revolutio ...Show more
The Most Beautiful Walk in the World: A Pedestrian in Paris by John Baxter
27.00 NZD
Category: Travel
Thrust into the unlikely role of professional "literary walking tour" guide, an expat writer provides the most irresistibly witty and revealing tour of Paris in years.In this enchanting memoir, acclaimed author and long-time Paris resident John Baxter remembers his yearlong experience of giving "literar ...Show more
The Perfect Meal: In Search of the Lost Tastes of France by John Baxter
25.00 NZD
Category: Food & Drink | Series: P. S. Ser.
IACP Cookbook Award Winner (Culinary Travel) 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 com ...Show more
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