Recommended Reading: “The Most Beautiful Walk in the World”

Looking for a summer read?  This is it:

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Paris.  On foot.  With a guide who writes well.

But it’s not just a guide book, not just descriptions of nice places to go.  There is a story line, strange diversions, a bit of sex – and a set of notes at the end on a User’s Guide to Paris as good as any I’ve read.  It’s about the author, John Baxter, his family and his neighbourhood around the rue de l’Odeon.  It’s a very satisfying read on a summer’s day.

Special recommendation to John Atkin, another urban guide who has probably already read it, and to our friend Dean, who has rented us a lovely little place in the 4th, and who will be amused by the chapter on “A Little Place in the Nineteenth.”

So will you.