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A Year in Paris: Season-By-Season in the City of Light by John Baxter
$35.00 NZD
Category: General 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
Cooking for Claudine: How I Cooked My Way into the Heart of a Formidable French Family by John Baxter
$29.00 NZD
Category: No Category
For John Baxter - acclaimed film critic and food lover - that moment came when he fell in love with a French woman and impulsively moved to Paris to marry her. As a test of his love, his sceptical in-laws charged him with cooking the next Christmas banquet. His year-long quest takes readers to the farth ...Show more
Five Nights in Paris: After Dark in the City of Light by John Baxter
$30.00 NZD
Category: General 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
Happy Leons: LEON Happy Salads by Jane Baxter, John Vincent
$30.00 NZD
Category: World Cookbooks | Series: Happy Leons Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Leon was founded on the twin principles that food can both taste good and do you good. In this book, Leon authors Jane Baxter and John Vincent bring together 100 recipes for fresh, vibrant, delicious salads that will have you feeling healthy and happy. Divided into chapters that include Classics, Natura ...Show more
James K Baxter: Complete Prose by James K Baxter, ed. John Weir
$200.00 NZD
Category: No Category | 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
$26.00 NZD
Category: Travel Guides and Planners | 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
$30.00 NZD
Category: World 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
Poems to a Glass Woman 1944-1945 by James K Baxter; John Weir (ed.)
$28.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: very good
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: General Travel | Series: Great Parisian Nieghborhoods | Reading Level: General Adult
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 Inner Man: The Life of J.G. Ballard by John Baxter
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
To 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 bec ...Show more
The Most Beautiful Walk in the World: A Pedestrian in Paris by John Baxter
$27.00 NZD
Category: General Travel | 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
$28.00 NZD
Category: World Cookbooks | 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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