Paris Pocket Map and Guide

Eyewitness Map & Guide

by Mike Gerrard, Donna Dailey

Every visitor to Paris needs a good map and a good guidebook-now, for the first time, the two have been combined in a unique format at an unbeatable price. Perfectly sized to fit in a purse or back pocket, the Eyewitness Pocket Map & Guide is a fully illustrated guide to all the major sights-plus an ingenious fold-out map so you will never feel lost. The guide also includes restaurants, pubs, shops and a mini-phrasebook. It's all you need for a perfect day out and about-and for just $6.99.

Genres: Travel, Nonfiction

96 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 2008

About the author

Mike Gerrard is the author of Cask Strength: The Story of the Barrel, the Secret Ingredient in your Drink, out in July 2023 from the Matt Holt imprint of BenBella Books.

Before branching out into writing about spirits (the kind you drink), Mike was a prolific and award-winning travel writer.

AWARDS
I’ve written on travel for newspapers, magazines and websites in the UK, the USA, Australia, Africa and Asia. I’ve won several awards for my writing and photojournalism:

Travel Distilled gained 3rd place in the AITO Travel Blogger of the Year Awards
A Travelex Award for Best Consumer Magazine Feature. The story, for London’s Time Out, was about eating snake in China and is now the title piece in my collection of travel writing, Snakes Alive!
A British Guild of Travel Writers Award
Two Awards for Excellence from the Outdoor Writers and Photographers Guild
A Benjamin Franklin Award in the USA for a guidebook to Paris
AITO Online Travel Writer of the Year
Named as one of the 50 Most Influential Travel Journalists in the UK by the Press Gazette
GUIDEBOOKS
I’ve also written or contributed to over 40 guidebooks for major travel publishers, including the AA, AAA, National Geographic, Fodor’s, Insight, Dorling Kindersley, Thomas Cook, Michelin, Moon Guides and many more.

FOOD AND DRINK
I have always loved writing about food and drink for the travel pages, and as well as visiting distilleries I’ve toured vineyards in France, Greece, New Zealand, the UK and even Arizona. I’ve toured breweries in many countries, written about Bernachon’s chocolate shop in Lyon, visited the Champagne region of France and the sherry bodegas of Jerez. I’ve interviewed chefs including Raymond Blanc and Alain Ducasse, and worked for a week as a waiter in a taverna in the Greek islands. (As a result I now leave bigger tips.)

EXOTIC TRAVELS
My more exotic travels have taken me camel-trekking in the Sinai Desert, walking in the Great Rift Valley of Tanzania to raise money for charity, learning to jive in Barcelona, looking for orang-utans in the rain forests of Sumatra and staying with a farming family in China.

OTHER WRITING
As well as hundreds of travel pieces and dozens of guidebooks, I’ve also written a podcast for American Express, worked on mapping software for Microsoft, written hotel reviews for Google, written a crime novel, a collection of travel writing, an erotic novel, and three radio plays for the BBC.

Reviews

[Meredith · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great city guide, small size made it easy to have on hand while walking around Paris. It was nice to be able to read before our trip to educate ourselves and then also during the trip to teach ourselves more about what we saw. Fold out map was a nice bonus!

[Diane Broussard · Rating 4 out of 5]

As always another great portable guide

[Jeane · Rating 4 out of 5]

A great to the point small guide with a great map and tube map. It doesn't give long info about the interesting things to visit but to the point short descriptions. I used it for a four day visit and it was great. It is small which is handy to just put in your jacket pocket but sometimes might feel a little bit unhandy to read.

[Phillippa O'Shea · Rating 4 out of 5]

Exactly what it says on the tin with an handy map and some great ideas for self guided walking tours.