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The Rough Guide to Paris is the ultimate travel guide to this fascinating city with clear maps and detailed coverage of all the best Paris attractions. Discover Paris's highlights with stunning photography and detailed coverage on everything from the city's magnificent galleries and the iconic Eiffle Tower, to the Left Bank cafés of Saint-Germain and Monparnasse. Find detailed practical advice on what to see and do in Paris whilst relying on up-to-date descriptions of the best hotels, bars, clubs, shops and restaurants for all budgets. The Rough Guide to Paris also includes two full-colour sections explaining each of the city's most notable architectural wonders, plus a detailed guide to the very best of Parisian food and drink. Explore every corner of this romantic city with clear maps to help you travel around with ease and ensure you don't miss the unmissable.
Make the most of your holiday with The Rough Guide to Paris.
About the Author
James McConnachie was born and brought up in south London, and was a scholar at Jesus College, Oxford, where he studied English. Touring the Loire in the back seat of a Citroën DS, as a child, inspired an early love of travel, but his first trips for Rough Guides were to Spain and Italy - and he remains passionate about both countries. Then, in 2002, James joined Dave Reed as co-author of the Rough Guide to Nepal. As a student, he had spent nine months teaching in a village in the Everest foothills, but travelling all over the country, in the middle of a Maoist insurrection, really put his knowledge of Nepali culture and language to the test - and never more urgently than when persuading a local Maoist that he was not in fact a CIA spy. After Nepal, James returned to his Francophile roots. He was commissioned to rewrite the Rough Guide to Paris, alongside Ruth Blackmore, and then headed back to the Loire valley to write his own, new guidebook: the Rough Guide to the Loire. Meanwhile, travel-related TV and radio appearances, including stints on the sofa with Richard and Judy and guesting on Radio 4's Excess Baggage, led to presenting work on Italy Inside Out, a five-part BBC series on Italian language and culture, and Kirsty Wark's Tales from Paris. James has also taken photographs for Rough Guides in Rome, Florence, Venice and Hawaii.In recent years, James has turned to history. With Robin Tudge, he co-authored the bestelling Rough Guide to Conspiracy Theories, which exposes the truth behind over a hundred conspiracy canards, and explores whether there is a conspiracist version of history. Bevis Hillier, in the Spectator, called it "unusually intelligent and laced with black humour". In The Book of Love: In Search of the Kamasutra (Atlantic), James traced the secretive story of the world's most notorious sex book, focusing on its discovery and pirate publication by the nineteenth-century explorer Richard Burton and his scandal-mongering coterie. William Dalrymple, writing in The Times, called it "elegant and stylish", The Washington Post found it a "first-rate work of intellectual history", and it won him a shortlisting for Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year 2008. Scandalized by the shrill and shallow quality of most modern sex manuals, James then decided to write his own: a book that wouldn't only discuss "how to do it", but would bring in history, ethics, politics, science and culture as well. The Observer called his subsequent Rough Guide to Sex "a comprehensive, fearless book, part socio-history and part manual". The writer and feminist Jenny Diski found it "funny and thoughtful"; the book's "clarity and straightforwardness", she reckoned, "would make anyone who has been young and befuddled (or old and befuddled) weep with gratitude." James now lives in Winchester, Hampshire, with his young family, but makes regular trips to France and Nepal to keep his guidebooks up to date. He is passionate about singing, books, languages, walking and wildlife. He is represented by David Godwin (www.davidgodwinassociates.co.uk) and welcomes comments via his blog (www.mcconnachie.net).
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Paris in three days,
This review is from: The Rough Guide to Paris (Paperback)
The family: my self, partner and our two teenagers (female) - all with differing requirements in Paris - used the guide to determine our plans! The guide is second to none in it's sectional layout and served to address the familiy's needs.
Transport, sightseeing, culture and importantly eating out. Beware at Gare de Nord if travelling by Eurostar. On arrival, and unlike London, getting off the train is straight onto the busy station concourse and distraction theft is a real problem there We lost a suitcase within minutes and others faired worse whilst we were in the station police office. None-the-less this book is an excellent guide to Paris. The Rough Guide to Paris.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
paris 2010,
This review is from: The Rough Guide to Paris (Paperback)
I needed a paris guide and so bought this. Its the latest version. The layout and font is much cleaner than the last version.
It was very readable. Good hints and tips.Very accurate maps and discriptions.
4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Missing useful information & biased,
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This review is from: The Rough Guide to Paris (Paperback)
I've bought Rough Guides before and kept forgetting that I've generally been underwhelmed by them. I carefully read reviews about Paris guidebooks before settling on this one as the most suitable. This was a mistake.
Information about the Catacombs being squidgy underfoot was wrong - there was nice gravel paths. Also they were NOT claustrophobic - mainly about 10 feet wide! There was no mention that the queue for this was horrendous - the worst queue we experienced, or that it goes down slowly because only 200 people were allowed in at a time. Despite arriving at 10:05, just after it opened, we queued for over 2 hours to get in! Information about the Palais de Tokyo was out dated. The guidebook lists it as one of the 19 places not to miss, however it was mainly closed for refurbishment when we visited, and not due to open until next year. No mention is made of the new Eiffel Tower online booking system. Parc Andre Citroen again had a biased description, implying that the colour themed gardens were "show gardens". A couple of lines mentioning that they had numerous secluded seating areas would have been very helpful. Travel information was unhelpful. The advice to get a "Navigo" card for stays of a week was less than helpful, as it did NOT mention the fact that you need a passport photo to get one. The section on Notre Dame did not mention that the trip to the towers was separate from the visit to the inside of the cathedral. We wasted a morning here. Another gripe was the lack of any key to the many maps to determine how they linked together. They were fine once you were in an are, but no use at all to decide if the next destination was walkable or not. The Metro map was geographic rather than geometric (ie not straight lines), so was hard to use and tie in with the official ones at the stations. We ended up using the map provided by the hotel. My expectation of the Rough Guide series was that it was for travelling on a budget, off the beaten track. However it seems to be resolutely mainstream, with incomplete information. I'm afraid I shall not be purchasing another Rough Guide.
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