The Financial times have called this series “the best literary gift to travelers since the Baedeker and Henry James” and City Secrets guides have loved the world over for being charming travel companions when visiting some of the most fascinating cities in the world. In London, New York, Rome, Venice, and Florence, City Secrets offers both discoveries and reflections from those artists, historians, and authors who know these cities best. This next step, which looks at the arts of book writing and movie making, includes contributions from such esteemed names as Martin Scorcese, Woody Allen, Wes Anderson, Anjelica Huston and much more besides. A must-have book, anyone buying this is also helping The Film Foundation which Martin Scorcese founded to raise funds for the restoration of the film and to promote the awareness of the unique history of cinema.
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Grilling juicy red meat, growing the perfect moustache and wooing a beautiful woman, is there anyone better to deliver the tutelage on all of the above, and more, than Nick Offerman, AKA Ron Swanson from Parks and Recreation? Paddle Your Own Canoe ($15) is a unique combination of his trademark comedy and is very real woodworking […]