The Seine: The River That Made Paris

Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 0393358593 ISBN13: 9780393358599 Release Date: September 2020 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Length: 400 Pages Weight: 0.70 lbs. Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.2" 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 characters--a bargewoman, a riverbank bookseller, a houseboat dweller, a famous cinematographer--and 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.