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A Pound of Paper by John Baxter
61.99 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
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 n ...Show more
A Pound of Paper - Confessions of a Book Addict by John Baxter
49.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A Year in Paris: Season-By-Season in the City of Light by John Baxter
35.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: 4
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
De Niro:A Biography by John Baxter
24.99 NZD
26.99 (7% off)
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
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 Bull" and Travis Bickle in "Taxi Driver" are some of the most vivid ever put on celluloid. De Niro cannot be cast to type, prefers ...Show more
Five Nights in Paris: After Dark in the City of Light by John Baxter
29.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
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
Immoveable Feast: A Paris Christmas by John Baxter
27.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
A witty cultural and culinary education, "Immoveable Feast" is the charming, funny, and improbable tale of how a man who was raised on white bread--and didn't speak a word of French--unexpectedly ended up with the sacred duty of preparing the annual Christmas dinner for a venerable Parisian family. Ern ...Show more
James K Baxter: Complete Prose by James K Baxter, ed. John Weir
200.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
James K. Baxter was a great twentieth-century poet. He once declared, ‘In contradiction . . . I was born.’Sometimes at odds with God, often at odds with conventional society, he was at the same time a profoundly religious man and a fearless social critic who insisted that love and compassion were the on ...Show more
Montmartre: Paris's Village of Art and Sin by John Baxter
25.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Great Parisian Nieghborhoods | Reading Level: General Adult
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
Paris at the End of the World: The City of Light During the Great War, 1914-1918 by John Baxter
29.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: P. S. Ser.
A preeminent writer on Paris, John Baxter brilliantly brings to life one of the most dramatic and fascinating periods in the city's history. From 1914 through 1918 the terrifying sounds of World War I could be heard from inside the French capital. For four years, Paris lived under constant threat of de ...Show more
The Most Beautiful Walk in the World: A Pedestrian in Paris by John Baxter
26.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing | Reading Level: very good
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
24.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing | 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
Untold Paris: The Secret History of the City of Light by John Baxter
44.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
Untold Paris is a unique illustrated guide to Paris - its people, quirks, peculiarities, charms and eccentricities, as well as its history and some of its many secrets.