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Rick Steves' Postcards from Europe: 25 Years of Travel Tales from America's Favorite Guidebook Writer

by Rick Steves · 1999

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This guide is an armchair tour of the author's favorite European travel experiences. In a series of personal vignettes, Steves tells of the Swiss schoolteacher who risked Steves's life to show him an edelweiss he couldn't pick, the Seina native who still bears a medieval grudge against Florence, and the Parisian who took a deep whiff of moldy cheese and sighed, "It smells like zee feet of angels."

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adult
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medium · 240 pages

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