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READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE
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Eyewitness Guide Loire Valley
• Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK •
2010 •
PAPER
• 264 PAGES
Visually rich, comprehensive, and practical, this guidebook is an excellent introduction to the history, culture and attractions of the Loire Valley. Highly recommended.
(FRN43, $23.00) |
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Catherine De Medici, Renaissance Queen of France
• Leonie Frieda
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •
2006 •
PAPER
• 440 PAGES
Poisoner, despot, necromancer. In this vivid portrait, Frieda reclaims the story of this unjustly maligned queen to reveal a skilled ruler battling extraordinary political and personal odds -- from a troubled childhood in Florence to her marriage to Henry, son of King Francis I of France; from her transformation of French culture to her fight to protect her throne and her sons' birthright.
(FRN875, $15.99) |
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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) |
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Loire Valley Map 517
• Michelin Travel Publications
MAP
A map of the Loire region of France in the series published by Michelin series, at a scale of 1:200,000. One Side. 40 X 61 inches.
(FRN302, $12.95) |
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Also Recommended
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, the book 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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A Traveller's History of France
• Robert Cole
• HISTORY
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This fast-moving survey covers the conquests of ancient Gaul through the heady days of revolution to modern times.
(FRN08, $14.95)
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A World Lit Only By Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance, Portrait of an Age
• William Manchester
• HISTORY
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Organized into sections on the Renaissance, Reformation and Discovery, Manchester's popular history evokes in vivid detail the great figures and daily life of the 16th century, including Henry VIII, Magellan, Borgia, da Vinci and Martin Luther.
(EUR06, $15.99)
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The Age of the Cathedrals, Art and Society 980-1420
• Georges Duby
• HISTORY
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The definitive historical study of the building of the great cathedrals. French scholar Duby, writing very accessibly, describes the cathedrals themselves, and the philosophical, religious, and political climate that enabled them to be built.
(EUR01, $28.00)
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The Most Beautiful Villages of the Loire
• James Bentley
• Hugh Palmer
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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An illustrated portrait of the region, its landscape, architecture, and people, featuring 275 color photographs and accompanying lively essays by Francophile James Bentley.
(FRN483, $40.00)
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Cathedrals and Castles, The Cathedral Builders of the Middle Ages
• Alain Erlande-Brandenburg
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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This pocket-size encyclopedia of the art, architecture and culture of the Middle Ages features hundreds of drawings, color illustrations and a brief chronology.
(MED07, $15.95)
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Adventures on the Wine Route, A Wine Buyer's Tour of France
• Kermit Lynch
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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A delightful and warmly anecdotal book, highly recommended for anyone touring the wine regions of France. Lynch brings the domains and appellations of French wine to full-blown life, and his portraits of the grand personalities who make the wine are priceless.
(FRN72, $19.00)
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Leonardo da Vinci, The Mind of the Renaissance
• Alessandro Vezzosi
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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A pocket-size encyclopedia, this colorful book illustrates and documents the life and work of Leonardo, including a long section of excerpts from his writings.
(ITL77, $12.95)
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Chocolat
• Joanne Harris
• LITERATURE
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This charming novel set in the Loire Valley pits provincial morals against pleasure. Adapted into a popular movie.
(FRN484, $15.00)
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France in Mind
• Alice Powers
• ANTHOLOGY
• COMING IN JUNE
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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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France, A Traveler's Literary Companion
• William Rodarmor
• ANTHOLOGY
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This collection contains literary gems from all corners of France--not just Paris--by a select group of 20th-century French writers, from Colette to Georges Simenon.
(FRN767, $14.95)
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In a Dark Wood Wandering, A Novel of the Middle Ages
• Hella Haasse
• LITERATURE
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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. With a magisterial grasp of the era, Haasse captures medieval court life during the Hundred Years War.
(FRN86, $21.95)
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Birds of Europe
• Lars Svensson
• FIELD GUIDE
• FAVORITE
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Featuring 3,500 glorious paintings by Killian Mullarney and Dan Zetterstrom, the second revised edition of this exquisite guide has been brought up to date with revised text and maps.
(FG47, $29.95)
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