![]() Following its course, she meets a fourth-generation grape grower in Champagne rowers who preserve historic boats the River Brigade, who are "just like Miami Vice, no?" and an elderly barge-woman mourning her landlocked retirement. She ventures to its inauspicious source in Burgundy a "little hole in a man-made limestone grotto in the middle of nowhere" and is inspired by the fable of the Gallo-Roman "healing goddess" Sequana for whom the river was named. "In the spring of 1978 I was seduced by a river," writes Sciolino, who then describes the Seine as "the most romantic river in the world" and explains how it has served as a strategic waterway in times of war (it slowed Hitler's retreat after D-Day) and peace (it was an important shipping route for the Romans). ![]() In this entertaining and informative travel memoir, former New York Times Paris bureau chief Sciolino (The Only Street in Paris) explores France's celebrated river, the Seine. ![]()
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