Paris, Paris: Journey into the City of Light Audiobook (Free)

Swapping his native SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA for the Cityof Light, travel writer David Downie found its way to Paris in 1986 on a one-wayticket, his head filled with romantic notions. Attention and the legs of across-country runner propelled him daily from an unheated, seventh-floorwalk-up garret close to the Champs-Élysées towards the old Montmartre haunts of thedoomed painter Modigliani, the tombs of Père-Lachaise cemetery, the luxuriantalleys from the Luxembourg Landscapes, as well as the aristocratic Île Saint-Louismidstream in the Seine.

Downie finished up living in the chic Marais district,married to the Paris-born American photographer Alison Harris, an equallyincurable walker and chronicler. Ten books and a quarter-century later on, hestill spends a long time each day rambling through Paris and writing aboutthe city he enjoys. An irreverent, witty romp offering thirty-one brief prosesketches of people, places, and daily life, Paris, Paris: Journey in to the Cityof Light ranges from the gorgeous towards the least-known edges andcharacters of the world’s favorite city.