The Great Paris WalkPack [Paperback]

Geoffrey Howard (Author), Carole Howard (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 2003

The Great PARIS WalkPack is the ultimate user-friendly guide to walking in five different Paris neighborhoods. It contains five individual full-color foldouts that are easy to read, easy to carry, but impossible to forget.

The five walks cover both well known landmarks like Notre Dame, the Pantheon, and Sacre Coeur, and also many of the little-known squares and small streets on the Right and Left Bank that make Paris Paris.

Each walk tells you where to go and what you're looking at, while providing interesting and lively background anecdotes. With beautiful photographs and an impossible-to-get-lost neighborhood map, it's the next best thing to having your best friend (who knows Paris inside and out) walking by your side.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Having visited Paris more than 20 times over 3 decades and having promised themselves each time that "one day" they would live there, Geoffrey and Carole Howard have finally fulfilled that promise and now divide their time each year between the City of Lights and the small town of Warwick, New York in the lower Hudson Valley.

Their goal in creating The Great PARIS WalkPack was to share their passion and their insights about the greatest walking city in the world.

Product Details

• Paperback: 60 pages
• Publisher: The Great WalkPack Company (December 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0974694509
• ISBN-13: 978-0974694504
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 4.9 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,105,992 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I loved it!, February 2, 2004

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Michael Spring (Westport, CT United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Great Paris WalkPack (Paperback)

I'm writing as publisher of Frommer's to say that The Great Paris Walk Book is one of the most delightful, honest, reliable travel companions I've ever had. The only thing that makes me sad is that we didn't publish it ourselves. Howard is the ultimate insider, taking you from one "find" to another, and turning tourists into travelers. I never go to Paris without it.
--Michael Spring, Publisher, Frommer's Travel Guides

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Thing Since the Baguette, January 20, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: The Great Paris WalkPack (Paperback)

We've been to Paris at least half a dozen times, and have a small library of guidebooks with walks in them. But the Paris WalkPack is easy to carry, and even easier to read. It's like shopping in a great boutique. Someone else has done the hard work of figuring out what we'd like, and the only choices we had to make were what to eat and drink at the end of the walk.

It also serves up little interesting tidbits that give a lot of flavor, but not more than one would ever want to know.

Any American who wants to feel like they are walking in Paris with a savvy and supportive friend would be well served by walking with the Paris WalkPack.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars And, I thought I knew Paris!, October 25, 2005

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susan (New York, NY, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Great Paris WalkPack (Paperback)

Having lived in Paris for a number of years and cherishing my own favorite strolls in the mistaken belief that I knew all Paris' hidden treasures, I had no idea that the Howard's Great Paris WalkPack could transform our vacation from merely wonderful to beyond our greatest expectations. The Great Paris WalkPack links marvelous jewels, many unknown to us, along golden paths of delightful Parisian Streets. It provides you just the right amount of information in the handiest of all formats. We look forward to the Howards' takes on Rome, New York, and London. Your best bet for your next trip and the perfect bon voyage gift.