Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris

Zusatztext As Parisian and as bracing as a freshly mixed Pernod and water. Informationen zum Autor Graham Robb was born in Manchester in 1958 and is a former fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. He has published widely on French literature and history. His book The Discovery of France won both the Duff Cooper and Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prizes. For Parisians the City of Paris awarded him the Grande Médaille de la Ville de Paris. He lives on the English-Scottish border. Klappentext No one knows a city like the people who live there - so who better to relate the history of Paris than its inhabitants through the ages? Taking us from 1750 to the new millennium, Graham Robb's Parisians is at once a book to read from cover to cover, to lose yourself in, to dip in and out of at leisure, and a book to return to again and again - rather like the city itself, in fact. For this collection of true stories the City of Paris awarded Graham the Medal of the City of Paris. 'Quirky, amused and très British' Julian Barnes, author of The Sense of an Ending . The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller from the award-winning author of The Discovery of France. Zusammenfassung The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller from the award-winning author of The Discovery of France.

Product details

• Authors: Graham Robb
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 15.04.2011
• EAN: 9780330452458
• ISBN: 978-0-330-45245-8
• No. of pages: 475
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 197 mm x 32 mm
• Series: Picador; Picador; Aziza's Secret Fairy Door
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; France, True stories, Short Stories, FICTION / Anthologies (multiple authors), TRAVEL / Europe / France, TRAVEL / Special Interest / Literary, Travel writing, Paris (City), Places and peoples: general and pictorial works