“Elaine Sciolino has laid one more beautiful and amusing wreath on the altar of the City of Light.”Edmund White, New York Times Blending memoir, travelogue, and history, The Seine is a love letter to Paris and the river that determined its destiny. Master storyteller and longtime New York Times foreign correspondent Elaine Sciolino explores the Seine through its lively charactersa bargewoman, a riverbank bookseller, a houseboat dweller, a famous cinematographerand follows it from the remote plateaus of Burgundy, through Paris, and to the sea. The Seine is a vivid, enchanting portrait of the world’s most irresistible river.
“Elaine Sciolino has laid one more beautiful and amusing wreath on the altar of the City of Light.”Edmund White, New York Times Blending memoir, travelogue, and history, The Seine is a love letter to Paris and the river that determined its destiny. Master storyteller and longtime New York Times foreign correspondent Elaine Sciolino explores the Seine through its lively charactersa bargewoman, a riverbank bookseller, a houseboat dweller, a famous cinematographerand follows it from the remote plateaus of Burgundy, through Paris, and to the sea. The Seine is a vivid, enchanting portrait of the world’s most irresistible river.
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