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by: Richard Saul Wurman
List Price: $21.95Amazon.com's Price: $14.93 You Save: $7.02 (32%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 914
EAN: 9780060836986
ISBN: 0060836989
Label: Collins
Manufacturer: Collins
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: November 01, 2006
Publisher: Collins
Release Date: October 31, 2006
Sales Rank: 110820
Studio: Collins
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Product Description:
Henry James wrote: 'Paris is the greatest temple ever built to material joys and the lust of the eyes.' The city of lights exudes such richness and variety that elevates even the necessities of life to the level of high art. The streets of Paris are museums lined with splendid architecture and historic monuments, making even the simple act of walking through the city one of life's great pleasures.
This luxury is greatly enhanced when one is armed with ACCESS Paris. Comprehensive, fully updated and filled with revised maps, sidebars and points of interest – ACCESS Paris's 10th Edition brings to life this city's love of grace, beauty and fine living, and allows the traveler to truly discover and know this artistic and cultural capital of a unified Europe.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Not the best Access guide, not the best Paris guide
I'm a big fan of Access guides for many other cities, but we didn't find much in this book that was really useful to us. Eventually we stopped carrying it around. We also had "Paris with Kids", which is an excellent guide if you're going with kids... and we found it was just better overall for us, with more insight and interesting detail. I've been to Paris many times, and Paris with Kids taught me interesting new stuff, while Access Paris just didn't.
Rating:  - Practical, well organized guide book
I've visited Paris many times over the past ten years and this is now the only guide book I take with me. If you plan to use the Metro as your primary mode of transportation throughout the city, then this is the best guide book I've ever found. It mixes interesting historical insights with practical and helpful information regarding hotels and restaurants in the neighborhoods surrounding the Metro stops. This is the second edition of the book that I've purchased - I wore out the first one. I ... Read More
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