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These 4 items are available for $62, including U.S. shipping, a 20% discount (Item no. EXFRN319)

Eyewitness Guide France  •  Eyewitness Guides GUIDEBOOK •  2010 •  FLEXI-BOUND  • 720 PAGES This superb guide to all of France features color photography, dozens of excellent local maps and a region-by-region synopsis of the country's attractions. Handsome, convenient and up-to-date, this is the guide to carry. (FRN01, $30.00)
Cathedrals and Castles, Building in the Middle Ages  •  Alain Erlande-Brandenburg ART & ARCHITECTURE •  1995 •  PAPER  • 175 PAGES • HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE A slim encyclopedia of the art, architecture and culture of the Middle Ages. This volume in the acclaimed "Discoveries" series features hundreds of drawings and color illustrations, a brief chronology and more information than you would imagine between its slim covers. Take it along to gain a better appreciation of the Middle Ages and its legacy in Europe. (MED07, $12.95)
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, $13.95)
France Map  •  Michelin 2009 •  MAP A colorful, accurate and up-to-date map of France at a scale of 1:1,000,000, with scenic routes highlighted. We also carry a variety of more detailed regional and city maps. One Side. 40x61 inches. (FRN07, $12.95)

Dordogne Map  •  IGN    •  Centered on Perigueux, this French-made map covers the Dordogne at a scale of 1:140,000. (FRN60, $9.95)
Lyon Map  •  Michelin    •  A handy, folded map of Lyon and surroundings, with clear street detail and index. (FRN481, $12.95)
Blue Guide Burgundy  •  Ian Ousby   • GUIDEBOOK  •  Invaluable for its many site plans and town maps, this compact guide focuses on the art and architecture of the region. With a good general overview and suggested routes. (FRN76, $19.95)
Discovering Wine Country, Burgundy  •  Patrick Matthews   • GUIDEBOOK • COMING IN  •  This handy guide, featuring 100 color photographs and 18 maps, includes an overview of the wines of Burgundy, wine tours, traveler's tips and recommended producers. (FRN499, $19.95)
Fodor's Paris' 25 Best  •  Fodor's   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This shirt-pocket map and guide includes essential information on the city's history, highlights and sightseeing, ideal for a short visit to the City of Light. (FRN41, $11.95)
Michelin Green Guide Wine Regions of France  •  Michelin Travel Publications   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A comprehensive driving guide, organized alphabetically. It's an excellent planning guide, especially useful for the independent traveler. (FRN513, $21.95)
Rough Guide France  •  Rough Guide   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A comprehensive guide to France, covering history, art, music and culture in detail. With a region-by-region overview of attractions and practical travel information. (FRN183, $24.99)
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, $18.00)
A Traveller's History of France  •  Robert Cole   • HISTORY  •  This fast-moving survey covers the conquests of ancient Gaul through the heady days of revolution to modern times. (FRN08, $14.95)
France from the Air  •  Yann Arthus-Bertrand   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  This spectacular book of photographs, one in a series by Yann Arthus-Bertrand, showcases the rivers, fields, landscapes, landscapes and cities of France in a series of dramatic low-altitude shot. With a introductory history and descriptive captions. (FRN598, $50.00)
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)
One Hundred & One Beautiful Small Towns in France: Food & Wine  •  Simonetta Greggio   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  Each charming village gets an appreciative essay and evocative color photographs in this handsome tribute (and excellent guide to choosing where to visit). (FRN611, $50.00)
The Age of Napoleon  •  Alistair Horne   • HISTORY  •  A trenchant observer of the French and popular historian, Horne offers the drama, ego, victory and times of Napoleon in this brief, lively biography in the excellent Modern Library Chronicles series. (FRN629, $15.00)
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)
The Age of Conversation  •  Benedetta Craveri   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  History, analysis and examples of the art of conversation as perfected by the French aristocracy of the 17th and 18th centuries. (FRN547, $30.00)
The Gothic Enterprise, A Guide to Understanding the Medieval Cathedral  •  Robert A. Scott   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  An accessible overview of the medieval cathedral, its history, design and architecture with black-and-white photographs. (EUR190, $19.95)
The Impressionists at Home  •  Pamela Todd   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  An illustrated, authoritative social history of the French impressionists and their homes. With biographies, 175 photographs and information on homes and gardens open to the public. (FRN600, $35.00)
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)
Adventures on the Wine Route, A Wine Buyer's Tour of France  •  Kermit Lynch   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A delightful, warmly anecdotal book, highly recommended for anyone touring the wine regions of France. The book brings the domains and appellations of French wine into full-blown life, and Lynch's portraits of the grand personalities who make wine are priceless. (FRN72, $18.00)
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, $15.00)
Clementine in the Kitchen  •  Samuel Chamberlain   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  This sweet tale of a transplanted American family and their endearing French cook evokes the traditions, character and food of rural France in the years before WWII. Clementine eventually accompanies her new friends back to America, where, happily, she finds love. (FRN455, $16.00)
My Life in France  •  Julia Child   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Child's characteristically ebullient record of Paris and Provence, her many friends, family and memorable meals, in the years after WWII. It's now a movie starring Meryl Streep and Stanley Tucci (as husband Paul). (FRN596, $15.00)
Talk to the Snail, Ten Commandments to Understanding the French  •  Stephen Clarke   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Clarke's essays on France and the French, as witty as they are useful, combines a guide to cultural understanding with some perfectly rendered, and perfectly hysterical notes on how to speak French. (FRN643, $15.95)
France in Mind  •  Alice Powers   • ANTHOLOGY  •  This wonderful selection of essays, excerpts and stories filters the experience of being in France through the lens of 33 British and American writers. (FRN384, $14.00)
Travelers' Tales France  •  James O'Reilly  •  Larry Habegger   • ANTHOLOGY  •  A wonderful collection of mostly contemporary tales, including such marvelous authors as Peter Mayle, M.F.K. Fisher, Mort Rosenblum, Ina Caro and Jan Morris. Organized thematically, it's a good introduction to the history, culture and character of France. (FRN05, $18.95)
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)
Suite Francaise  •  Irene Nemirovsky   • LITERATURE  •  Rediscovered after 60 years, Nemirovsky's two lustrous novellas capture the rhythms and peculiarities of daily life in German-occupied France with warmth and wit. (FRN642, $15.00)
The Railway Viaduct  •  Edward Marston   • MYSTERY  •  In the third installment of the popular Railway Detective series, Colbeck and Leeming are off to France when a mysterious man is stabbed on a train. Set in 1852, this mystery is full of historical detail and suspense. (FRN752, $15.95)
Three Crimes  •  Georges Simenon   • LITERATURE  •  Simenon mixes the story of murders committed by a pair of men, fellow editors from his youth, with long nights in this intense psychological thriller, published in French as Les trois crimes des mes amis. (FRN678, $15.95)
Timeline  •  Michael Crichton   • LITERATURE  •  Crichton's blockbuster fantasy combines time travel and adventures in Medieval France. A fast-paced, remarkably well-researched introduction to 14th-century Dordogne and Perigord. (FRN135, $7.99)