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Complete Poems by James K. Baxter (edited by John Weir)
200.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
James K. Baxter, one of New Zealand's greatest poets, began writing poetry when he was a seven-year-old pupil at Brighton Primary School. By the time his first book, Beyond the Palisades, was published when he was eighteen, he had written more than 600 poems. His life's work, contained in this four-volu ...Show more
Cooking for Claudine - How I Cooked My Way into the Heart of a Formidable French Family by John Baxter
29.00 NZD
Category: Cooking | Reading Level: very good
For John Baxter - acclaimed film critic and food lover - that moment came when he fell in love with a French woman and impulsively moved to Paris to marry her. As a test of his love, his sceptical in-laws charged him with cooking the next Christmas banquet. His year-long quest takes readers to the farth ...Show more
Five Nights in Paris: After Dark in the City of Light by John Baxter
30.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
The preeminent expat writer on Paris and author of The Most Beautiful Walk in the World takes you on an unforgettable nocturnal stroll through five iconic Parisian neighborhoods and his own memories.John Baxter enchanted readers with his literary tour of Paris in The Most Beautiful Walk in the World. No ...Show more
James K. Baxter - Collected Poems by James K. Baxter; John E. Weir (Editor)
92.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: good-very good
Secondhand. First published in 1980, reissued in paperback in 1988. The collected poems of James Baxter, who is considered by some critics to be a leading English language poet of this century. This edition includes all poems from collections and broadsheets, and some fifty previously unpublished poems ...Show more
James K Baxter: Complete Prose by James K Baxter, ed. John Weir
200.00 NZD
Category: Literature | Reading Level: very good
James K. Baxter was a great twentieth-century poet. He once declared, ‘In contradiction . . . I was born.’Sometimes at odds with God, often at odds with conventional society, he was at the same time a profoundly religious man and a fearless social critic who insisted that love and compassion were the on ...Show more
Montmartre: Paris's Village of Art and Sin by John Baxter
26.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Great Parisian Nieghborhoods | Reading Level: General Adult
In the second portrait of his series Great Parisian Neighborhoods, award-winning raconteur John Baxter leads us on a whirlwind tour of Montmartre, the hill-top village that fired the greatest achievements of modern art while also provoking bloody revolution and the sexual misbehavior that made Paris syn ...Show more
Paris at the End of the World: The City of Light During the Great War, 1914-1918 by John Baxter
30.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: P. S. Ser.
A preeminent writer on Paris, John Baxter brilliantly brings to life one of the most dramatic and fascinating periods in the city's history. From 1914 through 1918 the terrifying sounds of World War I could be heard from inside the French capital. For four years, Paris lived under constant threat of de ...Show more
Poems to a Glass Woman 1944-1945 by James K Baxter; John Weir (ed.)
28.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Written in 1944-5, these poems record the immediate impact of James K. Baxter's first serious love affair. The sequence is published for the first time on the 40th anniversary of the poet's death, 22 October 2013
The Most Beautiful Walk in the World: A Pedestrian in Paris by John Baxter
27.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing | Reading Level: very good
Thrust into the unlikely role of professional "literary walking tour" guide, an expat writer provides the most irresistibly witty and revealing tour of Paris in years.In this enchanting memoir, acclaimed author and long-time Paris resident John Baxter remembers his yearlong experience of giving "literar ...Show more
The Perfect Meal: In Search of the Lost Tastes of France by John Baxter
25.00 NZD
Category: Cooking | Series: P. S. Ser.
IACP Cookbook Award Winner (Culinary Travel) John Baxter's The Perfect Meal is part grand tour of France, part history of French cuisine, taking readers on a journey to discover and savor some of the world's great cultural achievements before they disappear completely. Some of the most revered and com ...Show more
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