Title: The Golden Book All Paris
Author: Giovanna Magi
Publisher: Casa Editrice Bonechi
Date: 1998
ISBN: 88-7009-191-0
Length: 128 pages
Illustrations: full-color photographs
Quote: “Writing a brief historical outline of Paris is no easy task: few cities have been so involved in great events which have changed the course of history.”
So, although there’s a sketch of the city’s history, no fear, this is mostly a photo album of Paris. Of course choosing what to include in the photo album is never an easy task either. Everyone agrees on the Eiffel Tower, the Arch of Triumph, and the Mona Lisa painting reprinted on the back cover. Beyond that, much depends on which of the pictures the visitor snaps come out best. (One way real progress has been made: with a good digital camera you can snap all the pictures you need to save only the ones that come out well.)
People who’ve been to Paris will start listing things that ought to be in the photo album and aren’t in this one, no doubt, but almost every one of these 128 pages contains premium-grade eye candy. Magi hardly needed to bother translating the text into English but she wrote nice, clear notes in English, too, if you can pull your eyes away from the pictures long enough to read them. If she’d chosen the title she would probably have chosen a better one. The Golden Book is a series of travel picture books printed by the publishers. Each book is “all” pictures of one popular destination or another.
If you’re a fan of “Wordless Wednesday” photo blogs, you might want to collect the whole series…though these Italian Golden Books are in no way connected to Whitman’s cheap, popular “Little Golden Books” for children.
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