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READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE
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Provence Alps French Riviera Map 527
• Michelin Travel Publications
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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. Two Sides. 40x61 inches.
(FRN22, $11.95) |
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Nice Map
• IGN
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A good map of Nice.
(FRN372, $9.95)
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French or Foe?
• Polly Platt
• GUIDEBOOK
• COMING IN
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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)
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Made in France, A Shopper's Guide
• Laura Morelli
• GUIDEBOOK
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Both a fascinating history of France's artisanal legacy and an insider's shopping guide, Made in France includes illustrations, maps, a primer on French shopping culture, and craft festivals.
(FRN706, $24.95)
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The Food of France
• Waverly Root
• FOOD
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An evocative and beautifully written survey of French food. First published in 1958 and revised in the mid-1970s, the 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)
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The Road from the Past, Traveling through History in France
• Ina Caro
• HISTORY
• BEST SELLER
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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)
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Vincent Van Gogh, The Passionate Eye
• Pascal Bonafoux
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
• FAVORITE
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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)
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A Year in Provence
• Peter Mayle
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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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, $14.95)
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Mediterranean Summer, A Season on France's Cote D'Azur and Italy's Costa Bella
• David Shalleck
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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A young American chef recounts his alluring, evocative summer voyage on the Mediterranean and into the enchanting seaside towns of France's Cote d'Azur and Italy's Costa Bella aboard an Italian billionaire couple's spectacular yacht.
(MED111, $13.99)
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Two Towns in Provence
• M. F. K. Fisher
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
• FAVORITE
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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)
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Village in the Vaucluse
• Laurence Wylie
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
• FAVORITE
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A loving portrait of rural Provence and its inhabitants by a sociologist who lived in Roussillon just after WWII. It was a different world then, a traditional village with two telephones and a single cafe.
(FRN225, $27.50)
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France in Mind
• Alice Powers
• ANTHOLOGY
• COMING IN FEBRUARY
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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)
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Tender is the Night
• F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Charles Scribner
• LITERATURE
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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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The Five-Forty-Five to Cannes
• Tess Uriza Holthe
• LITERATURE
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The intricately woven plot of these bittersweet stories center on a wealthy American's suspicious death on the French Riviera.
(FRN766, $13.00)
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The Solitude of Compassion
• Jean Giono
• LITERATURE
• COMING IN
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A collection of loosely plotted stories, first published in 1932, evoking the villages and people of Provence in vivid, heartfelt detail.
(FRN458, $15.00)
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