High Season: How One French Riviera Town Has Seduced Travelers for Two Thousand Years

Kanigel, Robert

ISBN 10: 0670899887 / ISBN 13: 9780670899883

Published by New York, New York, U.S.A.: Viking Pr, 2002

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Title: High Season: How One French Riviera Town Has...

Publisher: New York, New York, U.S.A.: Viking Pr

Publication Date: 2002

Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition: New

Dust Jacket Condition: New

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Synopsis:

A traveler's history of Nice traces its foundation by seafaring Greeks, colonization by Romans, and transformation by English aristocrats before becoming a tourist hot spot, profiling the contributors to its popularity as well as its most famous locales. 15,000 first printing.

About the Author:

Robert Kanigel is the author of The One Best Way, Apprentice to Genius, and The Man Who Knew Infinity, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His articles and essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Civilization, and Wilson Quarterly, among other publications. He teaches writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.