Blue Guides: Complete Cultural Guides -- Paris boasts a huge variety of art collections from small and intimate to some of the most celebrated museums in the world. Paris can only be understood if approached through its history and culture, which are brilliantly described and explained by author Delia Grey-Durant, who has lived and worked in the city. Illustrations to inform rather than to decorate: maps, diagrams, floor plans, architectural details and photographs -- Often plagiarised by other guide writers, Blue Guides have always been a gold standard for accuracy and depth Daily Telegraph. Guide books in the grand tradition of thoroughness and objectivity Georgia Review.