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Rhone River: Burgundy & Provence
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Eyewitness Guide Provence & the Cote D'Azur
Roger Williams
GUIDEBOOK 2006 PAPER 272 PAGES
This superb guide, another entry in the excellent Eyewitness series, features color photography, dozens of excellent local maps and a district-by-district synopsis of attractions in both Provence and the Riviera. Handsome, comprehensive and convenient, this is the guide to carry.
(FRN18, $23.00)
Discovering Wine Country, Burgundy
Patrick Matthews
GUIDEBOOK 2005 PAPER 144 PAGES
Both a guide to wine and to wine country, this handy guide, featuring 100 color photographs and 18 maps, includes an overview of the wines of Burgundy, suggested wine tours, traveler's tips and recommended producers. Patrick Matthews, general editor of the series, has a home in Burgundy.
(FRN499, $19.95)
Long Ago in France, The Years in Dijon
M.F.K. Fisher
FOOD 1992 PAPER 159 PAGES
A memoir of Fisher's years in France in the late '20s and early '30s, a time of exuberant discoveries of the glories of French food and French culture.
(FRN21, $12.00)
Travelers' Tales Provence
Tara Austen Weaver James O'Reilly
ANTHOLOGY 2003 PAPER 262 PAGES
A sampling of true tales, 8-14 pages each, by a cast of mostly modern writers, journalists and travelers, including the ever-present Peter Mayle, lovely Lawrence Durrell, wine-maven Kermit Lynch and philosopher Alain de Botton.
(FRN410, $16.95)
The Road from the Past, Traveling through History in France
Ina Caro
HISTORY 1996 PAPER 339 PAGES
BEST SELLER
Time travel through France by way of its finest castles, chateaux, cathedrals and monasteries. This unusual travelogue is an invaluable companion for traveling in Paris, southern France, the Dordogne and the Loire Valley, combining personal observation with large doses of well-presented history.
(FRN03, $17.00)
Vallee du Rhone Map
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MAP
A colorful, detailed map of the Rhone Valley from Lyon south to Port St. Louis, the Cararmgue and Marseilles at a scale of 1:250,000.
(FRN64, $11.95)
Barging In Burgundy: Boating, Exploring, Wining & Dining
Erasmus Kloman
GUIDEBOOK
Kloman offers a down-to-earth, you-can-do-it-too account of renting and piloting a barge on the waterways of Burgundy in this practical book. It's a winning combination of travelogue and guidebook.
(FRN492, $12.95)
Fodor's Paris' 25 Best
Fodor's
GUIDEBOOK
A shirt-pocket map and practical guide to Paris, including essential information on the city's highlights, guidelines for sightseeing, and restaurant recommendations.
(FRN41, $11.95)
Cote D'or, A Celebration of the Great Wines of Burgundy
Clive Coates
FOOD
An in-depth guide to the region's wines. Coates introduces every major grower and his wines, analyzes climatological effects, and profiles the top wines by year, climate, and region.
(FRN645, $65.00)
The Cook and the Gardener, A Year of Recipes and Writings from the French Countryside
Amanda Hesser
FOOD
An American cook in Burgundy, the author records her recipes and growing fondness for a very French gardener, in this narrative cookbook. It includes 250 recipes and some fine observations on local people and places.
(FRN85, $32.50)
The Food of France
Waverly Root
FOOD
An aromatic and and beautifully written survey of French food. First published in 1958 and revised in the mid-1970's, this book covers the important regions of French cuisine by dividing them into domains of Butter (northern France), Fat (Alsace), and Oil (the south).
(FRN17, $17.95)
A Traveller's History of France
Robert Cole
HISTORY
A fast-moving survey of French history, from the conquests of ancient Gaul through the heady days of revolution to modern times.
(FRN08, $14.95)
French or Foe? Getting the Most Out of Visiting, Living and Working in France
Polly Platt
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
With humor, directness and great insight, this compact book is an expert and entertaining guide to the French and how to get along with them. The expanded third edition addresses France's romance with cell phones and includes a short chapter of recent vignettes.
(FRN54, $16.95)
The Most Beautiful Villages of Burgundy
James Bentley
Hugh Palmer
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
Divided geographically, this handsome book is an illustrated portrait of the region, its landscape, architecture and people. With maps, a travel guide and 260 photographs.
(FRN80, $40.00)
The Most Beautiful Villages of Provence
Michael Jacobs
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
The life and landscapes of 34 small towns and villages in Provence. With an excellent introduction on the history and pleasures of the place and hundreds of color illustrations, this oversize book is an informative, stunning keepsake.
(FRN28, $40.00)
Cathedrals and Castles, Building in the Middle Ages
Alain Erlande-Brandenburg
ART & ARCHITECTURE
HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE
A pocket-size encyclopedia of the art, architecture and culture of the Middle Ages. It features hundreds of drawings and color illustrations, a brief chronology and plenty more information.
(MED07, $12.95)
Cezanne and Provence, The Painter and His Culture
Nina Maria Athanassoglou-Kallmyer
ART & ARCHITECTURE
This thorough study of Cezanne's work takes as its jumping off point his 1886 move from Paris to his native Aix-en-Provence. The author uses the history and culture of Provence to provide a fresh analysis of the landscape's influence on the painter's technique.
(FRN554, $65.00)
The Gothic Cathedral, Origins of Gothic Architecture and the Medieval Concept of Order
Otto Georg Von Simson
ART & ARCHITECTURE
A scholarly examination of the Medieval cathedral as a representation of the supernatural and divine.
(EUR246, $29.95)
Van Gogh in Arles
Alfred Nemeczek
ART & ARCHITECTURE
This short book is a very fine narrative account of Van Gogh's year in Arles and the work that he produced there, complemented by 66 color illustrations.
(FRN248, $9.95)
A Moveable Feast
Ernest Hemingway
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
A treasure for anyone interested in Parisian cafe society and its luminaries circa 1925. Hemingway includes sharp portraits of Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ford Maddox Ford and others who idled on their way to greatness.
(FRN26, $15.00)
A Pig in Provence
Georgeanne Brennan
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
Marvelously frank about daily chores and the decidedly unglamorous business of raising goats and pigs, Brennan lards her earthy tale of the rural life with recipes, one per chapter.
(FRN687, $13.00)
A Year in Provence
Peter Mayle
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
The original best-selling tale of settling down in Provence, told with warmth and a great deal of humor. It offers a wonderful inside look at the charms and quirks of the people and the countryside in the south of France.
(FRN19, $13.00)
My Father's Glory and My Mother's Castle
Marcel Pagnol
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
Best known as a filmmaker, Pagnol evokes his childhood in Provence and Marseilles fifty years ago. These memoirs sparkle with delight in the people, landscapes and daily life of southern France.
(FRN178, $28.00)
My Life in France
Julia Child
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
NEW
Child's characteristically ebullient record of Paris and Provence, her many friends, family and memorable meals, in the years after WWII.
(FRN596, $14.95)
Two Towns in Provence
M. F. K. Fisher
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
FAVORITE
Few can paint the earthy details of a place and time like celebrated food writer M.F.K. Fisher. In this small volume, she contrasts village life in Aix-en-Provence with bustling Marseilles, evoking both with anecdote and loving description.
(FRN27, $16.95)
In a Dark Wood Wandering, A Novel of the Middle Ages
Hella Haasse
LITERATURE
With a cast of thousands including Joan of Arc and the Dukes of Burgundy, this 1949 historical novel renders the political intrigue, people and texture of 15th-century Europe. Haasse captures medieval court life during the Hundred Years War.
(FRN86, $21.95)
The Solitude of Compassion
Jean Giono
LITERATURE
A collection of loosely plotted stories, first published in 1932, evoking the villages and people of Provence in vivid, heartfelt detail.
(FRN458, $15.00)
The Botanist and the Vintner, How Wine Was Saved for the World
Christy Campbell
SCIENCE
In this witty book Campbell interweaves a dramatic tale of the devastation of vineyards in 1860's France with French cultural history and a tale of the mad scramble by scientists (along with witches, priests and mystics) to discover the cause and cure. The French were none too pleased that salvation (as well as the disease) came in the form of American root stock.
(FRN497, $14.95)
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