Travelers' Tales Paris (52 page)

Selection from “Rosy in Paris” by Lois MacLean reprinted by permission of the author. Copyright © 1997 by Lois MacLean.

Selection from “Running in Paris” by Barbara J. Euser reprinted by permission of the author. Copyright © 1997 by Barbara J. Euser.

Selections from
The Secret Life of the Seine
(excerpted from pages 143 and 286), © 1994 by Mort Rosenblum. Reprinted by permission of Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc.

Selection from “Service by Committee” by Claudia J. Martin reprinted by permission of the author. Copyright © 1997 by Claudia J. Martin.

Selections from
The Silent Traveller in Pairs
by Chiang Yee reprinted by permission of Chien Fei Chiang and W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. Copyright © 1956 by Chiang Yee.

Selection from
Spirit of Place: Letters and Essays on Travel
by Lawrence Durrell reproduced with permission of Curtis Brown Ltd, London, on behalf of The Estate of Lawrence Durrell. Copyright © 1969 by Lawrence Durrell.

Selection from “The Splendor and the Pain: Touring Paris in Heels” by Jill Schensul reprinted from
The Bergen Record
. Reprinted by permission of the author. Copyright © 1996 by Jill Schensul.

Selection from
Transforming Paris: The Life and Labors of Baron Haussmann
by David P. Jordan reprinted with permission of The Free Press, a division of Simon & Schuster. Copyright © 1995 by David P. Jordan.

Selection from “Under the Sidewalk” by Alan Riding reprinted from the July 12, 1992 issue of
The New York Times
. Copyright © 1992 by The New York Times Company. Reprinted by permission.

Selection from
Understanding Europeans
, 2nd edition, by Stuart Miller reprinted by permission of the author. Copyright © 1996 by Stuart Miller.

Selection from
The Unknown South of France: A History Buff's Guide
by Henry S. and Margaret M. Reuss. Copyright © 1991 by Henry S. and Margaret M. Reuss. Reprinted with permission of The Harvard Common Press, 535 Albany Street, Boston, MA 02118.

Selection from
What's Called Love: A Real Romance
by Jim Paul. Copyright © 1993 by Jim Paul. Reprinted by permission of Random House, Inc.

Selection by Jean-Paul Sartre reprinted from
Witness to my Life: The Letters of Jean-Paul Sartre to Simone de Beauvoir
edited by Simone de Beauvoir and translated by Lee Fahnestock and Norman MacAfee. Published by Simon & Schuster. Copyright 1992 by Lee Fahnestock and Norman MacAfee.

James O'Reilly
, publisher of Travelers' Tales, was born in Oxford, England, and raised in San Francisco. He's visited fifty countries and lived in four, along the way meditating with monks in Tibet, participating in West African voodoo rituals, rafting the Zambezi, and hanging out with nuns in Florence and penguins in Antarctica. He travels whenever he can with his wife and their three daughters. They live in Palo Alto, California, where they also publish art games and books for children at Birdcage Press (
birdcagepress.com
).

Larry Habegger
, executive editor of Travelers' Tales, has visited almost fifty countries and six of the seven continents, traveling from the Arctic to equatorial rainforests, the Himalayas to the Dead Sea. In the 1980s he co-authored mystery serials for the
San Francisco Examiner
with James O'Reilly, and since 1985 has written a syndicated column, “World Travel Watch” (
WorldTravelWatch.com
). Habegger regularly teaches travel writing at workshops and writers' conferences, is a principal of the Prose Doctors (
prosedoctors.com
), and editor-in-chief of
Triporati.com
, a destination discovery site. He lives with his family on Telegraph Hill in San Francisco.

Sean O'Reilly
is editor-at-large for Travelers' Tales. He is a former seminarian, stockbroker, and prison instructor who lives in Virginia with his wife and their six children. He's had a lifelong interest in philosophy and theology, and is the author of
How to Manage Your DICK: Redirect Sexual Energy and Discover Your More Spiritually Enlightened, Evolved Self
(
dickmanagement.com
). His travels of late have taken him through China, Southeast Asia, and the South Pacific; his most recent non-travel project is
redbrazil.com
, a bookselling site.