A guided tour of twenty-five gardens in and around Paris — from Versailles, the Luxembourg, and the Tuileries to hidden ones like the Albert Kahn Japanese garden and the Bourdelle museum's sculpture garden.

Written by French garden expert Stéphane Marie, each entry gives the history and botany of the place, with the illustrations to match. An armchair tour as much as a real one.

A lovely gift for the gardener who dreams of Paris, or the traveler who plans by garden.

For the gardener and the Francophile. Somewhere between a guidebook and a beautiful one.