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This is the kind of book one would give to a young person who dreams of their first trip to Paris or New York. Or to someone younger who keeps coming back and who thinks he knows everything.
In short, to offer to anyone who keeps New York or Paris in their heart. It’s the kind of book to leave lying around on the bedside table or in the bathroom, because they can be eaten in small gulps, at random pages, a bit like a city lets itself be discovered at random in its streets. .
Among the addresses offered by these guides that are not really, many are well known or overpriced (often both). So we will not necessarily find “good plans” – for that, there is the Routard or the classic Lonely Planet -, but ideas of discoveries, grouped by themes: hidden paradises, mythical places, villages in the city, unusual, historic or terrifying places, best restaurants, shopping must-haves, etc. Everything is there, and more.
The 50 “cards” promised by the title are rather nice illustrations, funny, creative, sympathetic, works of recognized artists, which more or less vaguely represent a map of Paris or New York, but which will not help anyone to find their way. lead in the city. The editor could also have saved the unfoldable map attached to each of the works, which will be of no use to the somewhat presbyopic walker. The others, well … they have their phones! Finally, lament the overabundance of English subtitles in the New York guide. After all, it’s a French edition, right?
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Paris in 50 maps and 500 addresses
Gaspard Walter
Collective, Lonely Planet editions
112 pages, 26,95 $
New York in 50 maps and 750 addresses
Françoise and Pauline Dayle
Collective, Lonely Planet editions
112 pages, 26,95 $
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