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Ina Caro is the author of THE ROAD FROM THE PAST: TRAVELING THROUGH HISTORY IN FRANCE. Her second book PARIS TO THE PAST:TRAVELING THROUGH FRENCH HISTORY BY TRAIN will be published by W.W.Norton in June, 2011. Both these books combine history and travel,believing that history makes travel more fun just as travel makes history more fun. She uses, the original concept of traveling through history chronologically, beginning in THE ROAD FROM THE PAST with Roman France or Provence and traveling then through the middle ages, the Renaissance, to the Age of Louis XIV, In her second book, she begins in the twelfth century and travels century by century to the nineteenth.

When Ina Caro graduated from college her ambition was (as recorded in her high school year book) was to be a researcher -- a historical researcher. FOllowing her ambition she becameo the sole researcher for her husband, Robert A. Caro, who has written THE POWER BROKER:ROBERT MOSES AND THE FALL OF NEW YORK; THE YEARS OF LYNDON JOHNSON: THE PATH TO POWER, MEANS OF ASCENT, and MASTER OF THE SENATE. These books have won two Pulitzer Prizes, two National Book Critic Circle Awards,a National Book Award, an Award in Literature from the American Academny and Institute, a Francis Parkman Prize. Mr. Caro's first book, THE POWER BROKER was chosen by the Modern Library as one of the hundred greatest nonfiction books of the twentieth century. President Obama has recently awarded him a National Humanities Award, and New York State has inducted him into the Writers Hall of Fame.

Ina Caro is presently writing a blog entitled Paristothepast.com