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New Orleans Antique Shopping, Culinary Extravaganza and Guide to the French Quarter

New Orleans Antique Shopping, Culinary Extravaganza and Guide to the French Quarter

by Richard KingThomas King RPh and Thomas King
Paperback
Publication Date: 30/04/2019

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There are a lot of guide books telling others how to swim in an alcoholic stupor through the French Quarter or how to backpack on a shoestring. However, this is the only guide to fine antique art shopping and culinary extravaganza. The French Quarter in New Orleans is one of the few places in the world where one can find a high concentration of antique art galleries in a small walkable area. There are a lot of places where there are a number of "antique" shops. However, I don't consider kitsch such as old toys from the 1970s, old soda bottles and plastic lunch boxes to be antiques. To me, an antique is a handmade item of fine crasftsmanship and beauty that one cannot find in any modern factory made item. There are many genuine antique art galleries in the French Quarter that I am fond of. Please note that NONE of the antique art galleries in this book has paid me in any way for my reviews of their businesses. I have not received any favors, discounts, payments, nor gifts of any kind. None of these art gallery owners even know I am writing this book. As a former antique art dealer, I invite you to accept my unique tips and insider's guide to the opulent New Orleans antique art market. Even if you are not an antique collector, the antique stores in New Orleans contain items of such quality and significance that they are essentially free museums. In addition to the inside scoop on restaurants and antique shops, this is also a complete guide to the French Quarter because this book contains information on which hotels are the best for every budget, antique gun shops, fine art galleries, smoke free music venues and a historical walking tour of the French Quarter. There is enough in this book to occupy a long weekend to a week long vacation. This book even includes a handy map of the French Quarter. I invite you to enjoy this indispensable guide to New Orleans. Laissez les bon temps rouler (Let the good times roll )
ISBN:
9781096358411
9781096358411
Category:
Antiques & collectables
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
30-04-2019
Language:
English
Publisher:
Independently Published
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
228.6x152.4x2.26mm
Weight:
0.1kg
Richard King

Richard King is an English author, critic and poet based in Fremantle, Western Australia. He studied at Salford University and the University of Sussex, gaining an MA in Literary History and Cultural Discourse, before moving to London to work in publishing.

He is the author of On Offence: The Politics of Indignation (Scribe, 2013), published in Australia, the UK and the US. Richard’s work appears widely, including in Best Australian Poems, Best Australian Science Writing, The Australian, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Monthly and The London Magazine. The late Clive James said of him, ‘King…make[s] news out of culture, and without trivialising the second thing in favour of the first.’

Thomas King

Thomas King has written several highly acclaimed children's books including A Coyote Solstice Tale (illustrated by Gary Clement) which won the American Indian Library Association Youth Literature Award for Best Picture Book and A Coyote Columbus Story (illustrated by Kent Monkman) which was a Governor General's Award finalist. King, who is of Cherokee and Greek descent and was born in California, was chair of American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota before moving to University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. He recently won a Governor General's Award for his adult novel, The Back of the Turtle; he won both the BC National Award for Canadian Nonfiction and the RBC Taylor Prize for The Inconvenient Indian.

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