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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)
Fodor's Paris' 25 Best
Fodor's
GUIDEBOOK 2008 PAPER 128 PAGES
This slim guide to Paris includes an excellent map of the center of the city and essential information on its highlights, including restaurant recommendations and sightseeing.
(FRN41, $11.95)
Provence Alps French Riviera Map 527
Michelin Travel Publications
2008 MAP
A colorful and detailed map of the region from the southern Alps south to the Carmargue, Marseille, Toulon, Cannes and Nice at a scale of 1:200,000. An excellent map for travelers on the Rhone River. One Side. 40 X 61 inches.
(FRN22, $11.95)
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 Food of France
Waverly Root
FOOD
An evocative and beautifully written survey of French food. First published in 1958 and revised in the mid-1970s, 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)
The Most Beautiful Villages of Provence
Michael Jacobs
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
This oversize book, which includes the life and landscapes of 34 small towns, is an informative, stunning keepsake.
(FRN28, $40.00)
The Road from the Past, Traveling through History in France
Ina Caro
HISTORY
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)
In the South of France
Don Krohn
ART & ARCHITECTURE
Invoking artists and authors captivated by Provence and the south of France, this gorgeous collection of photographs also features an introduction to the history and culture of the region and generous excerpts from writers inspired by the south of France.
(FRN192, $45.00)
Monet, the Ultimate Impressionist
Sylvie Patin
ART & ARCHITECTURE
A colorful pocket-size reference to Monet's life, paintings and contemporaries, perfect for those visiting Giverny.
(FRN35, $12.95)
Vincent Van Gogh, The Passionate Eye
Pascal Bonafoux
ART & ARCHITECTURE
FAVORITE
From Paris to Asnieres, Amsterdam and Provence, this jewel of a book traces the life and art of Vincent Van Gogh, the spirited, self-destructive painter who celebrated the south of France. Engaging, compact and illustrated with hundreds of photographs.
(FRN29, $12.95)
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)
Between Meals, An Appetite for Paris
A.J. Liebling
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
FAVORITE
Liebling captues with stylish prose his coming-of-age in Paris in this elegant memoir, which is also a tribute to French cuisine.
(FRN32, $14.00)
Into a Paris Quartier, Reine Margot's Chapel and other Haunts of St. Germain
Diane Johnson
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
Novelist Diane Johnson (Le Divorce) writes with insight, verve and wit in this affectionate, personal portrait of St Germain-des-Pres, her neighborhood on the Left Bank.
(FRN491, $10.95)
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)
Paris to the Moon
Adam Gopnik
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
Gopnik writes with candor and humor about Paris and Parisian ways in these charming reflections on adapting to life abroad.
(FRN208, $15.00)
Two Towns in Provence
M. F. K. Fisher
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
FAVORITE
Celebrated food writer M.F.K. Fisher contrasts village life in Aix-en-Provence with bustling Marseilles, evoking both with anecdote and loving description.
(FRN27, $16.95)
Americans in Paris, A Literary Anthology
Adam Gopnik
ANTHOLOGY
This wide-ranging anthology includes early impressions by Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin, as well as by a generous sampling of 20th-century literary masters.
(FRN427, $40.00)
Travelers' Tales Paris
James O'Reilly
ANTHOLOGY
This diverse collection of well chosen, mostly modern tales by mostly foreign writers, includes short excerpts by Edmund White, Jan Morris, Mort Rosenblum, Ina Caro and Julian Green.
(FRN25, $18.95)
A Parisian Affair and Other Stories
Guy de Maupassant
LITERATURE
Set in in the nouveau riche Paris of society women, prostitutes and playboys, in Normandy at sea and in the South of France, the 34 gems in this Penguin Classics collection are vintage Maupassant: economical, darkly humorous and brilliant.
(FRN757, $11.00)
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)
Tender is the Night
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Charles Scribner
LITERATURE
Fitzgerald's tragic tale of wealthy expatriate lovers living on the French Riviera. Dick and Nicole Diver fill their home with friends, but cannot find happiness for themselves and slowly slip into psychological despair.
(FRN196, $15.00)
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