Avant-Guide Paris : Insiders' Guide for Urban Adventurers

Whip smart, stylish and bang up-to-date, the Avant-Guide series is the vanguard of a new generation of guidebooks for travelers who have outgrown backpacks and shoestring budgets, but are too young for hermetically-sealed tour buses.

Avant-Guide books are packed with straightforward reviews from insiders who wouldn't dream of counseling readers to "pack a rain poncho" or "wear comfortable shoes." Each Avant-Guide is comprehensive in scope, detailing museums and neighborhoods as well as stylish hotels, chic shops, and the best restaurants for every budget.

In short, Avant-Guide gives you easy access to the most exciting and stylish facets of the city.

Each Avant-Guide is created by an independent team of local experts who are intimately involved with the subjects they write about.

Avant-Guide photographers shoot for the world's most respected publications, from Travel + Leisure to The New York Times.

The series is directed by Dan Levine, one of the world's top travel experts. He has written 10 best-selling guidebooks to the world's most-visited places, produced travel television for HBO and NBC, and appeared on The Travel Channel, BBC-2, and PBS.

Each book is individually designed by an innovative European creative team. They are intensively styled with house-made fonts, pioneering graphics, and even flip-film animations incorporated into the paginations. And with their matte-laminate and spot-gloss coatings, our colorful, poster-quality covers are the most stylish jackets around.