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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, 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)
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The Autumn of the Middle Ages
• Johan Huizinga
• HISTORY
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A pioneering work of social and cultural history, this well translated classic is a richly detailed portrait of life, thought and art in 14th- and 15th-century France and the Netherlands.
(EUR17, $25.00)
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Band of Brothers, E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
• Stephen E. Ambrose
• HISTORY
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Through soldiers' diaries and letters, Ambrose assembles the gripping tale of the Easy Company, and their campaigns in Western Europe during WWII. The basis for the hit mini-series.
(WAR128, $17.00)
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The Bayeux Tapestry, Monument to a Norman Triumph
• Wolfgang Grape
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
• OUT OF PRINT
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The story of the Norman conquest of England as told through the scenes depicted on the Bayeux Tapestry. This book places Grape's text alongside full color photographs of the tapestry -- an accessible and visually enjoyable summary of events.
(FRN245, $29.95)
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Between Meals, An Appetite for Paris
• A.J. Liebling
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
• FAVORITE
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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)
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Blue Guide Burgundy
• Ian Ousby
• GUIDEBOOK
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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)
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Citizen Soldiers
• Stephen Ambrose
• HISTORY
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Ambrose's account of the battles fought in the year between D-Day and the German surrender, from the U.S. Army's perspective.
(WAR19, $18.00)
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Clara's Grand Tour, Travels With a Rhinoceros in Eighteenth-century Europe
• Glynis Ridley
• HISTORY
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The entertaining history of an Indian rhinoceros named Clara, who was brought to Europe in 1741 by a Dutch sea captain and toured for seventeen years, to the delight of several heads of state.
(FRN536, $12.00)
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Claude Monet
• William Seitz
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A short survey of Monet's greatest works.
(FRN249, $24.95)
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Claudine's House
• Colette
• Doris Lessing
• LITERATURE
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A marvelous new translation of Colette's warm, sensual account of growing up under her mother's watchful care in the south of France.
(FRN570, $15.95)
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The Complete Letters of Vincent Van Gogh
• Vincent Van Gogh
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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A handsome three volume set containing all the available letters written by Vincent Van Gogh.
(NTH35, $100.00)
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The D-Day Landing Beaches, The Guide
• Georges Bernage
• GUIDEBOOK
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Each landing site is described with information on troop locations, fortifications, and terrain. With over 200 photographs, maps and charts.
(FRN646, $19.95)
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D-Day: June 6, 1944 -- The Climactic Battle of WWII
• Stephen Ambrose
• HISTORY
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Ambrose reads his tale of the 24 hours of June 6, 1944 in this unabridged audio presentation
(FRN747, $32.00)
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Debussy and His World
• Jane F. Fulcher
• MUSIC
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Twelve scholarly essays on Debussy and fin-de-siecle Paris in the Bard Music Festival Series.
(FRN518, $27.95)
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An Englishman A La Campagne, Life in Deepest France
• Michael Sadler
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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A humourous, quirky narrative of Englishman Michael Sadler making do in rural France, filled with anecdotes that convey the charm of the French countryside and the unavoidable mishaps that accompany Sandler's immersion in local life.
(FRN569, $12.95)
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Eyewitness Guide Brittany
• Eyewitness Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
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A thorough, gorgeously illustrated guidebook.
(FRN401, $23.00)
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Eyewitness Guide France
• Eyewitness Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
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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)
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Eyewitness Guide Paris
• Eyewitness Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
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Gorgeous, well illustrated and filled with maps, this compact book provides an excellent overview of the City of Light, its history, traditions, cultures and sights.
(FRN02, $25.00)
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Floating Through France, Life Between Locks on the Canal Du Midi
• Barb Euser
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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These essays and poems are the reflections of a group of writers who slipped along the Canal du Midi together in two old boats in the summer of 2005.
(FRN572, $14.95)
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Fodor's Paris' 25 Best
• Fodor's
• GUIDEBOOK
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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)
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France and the French, A Modern History
• Rod Kedward
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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A sweeping, in-depth history of France from 1900 to the present day, from the disasterous world wars to the crumbling of the empire to France's modern place in the European Union.
(FRN573, $24.95)
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France in Mind
• Alice Powers
• ANTHOLOGY
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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 Map
• Michelin
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A colorful, accurate and up-to-date map of France at a scale of 1:1,000,000.
(FRN07, $11.95)
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French English Bilingual Visual Dictionary
• DK Publishing
• LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
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With thousands of neatly arranged color photographs, this compact book is impressively comprehensive, covering everything from the basics of le corps (body) to the vocabulary of la buanderie (utility room).
(FRN520, $12.95)
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The Frenchman
• Philippe Halsman
• Art Buchwald
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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This much-loved book, out of print for 50 years, captures something inimitable about the French. Philippe Halsman asked the rubber-faced vaudeville actor Fernandel questions about America and recorded his facial expression in response.
(FRN574, $19.99)
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The Gothic Enterprise, A Guide to Understanding the Medieval Cathedral
• Robert A. Scott
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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An accessible overview of the medieval cathedral, its history, design and architecture with black-and-white photographs.
(EUR190, $17.95)
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The Gothic Enterprise, A Guide to Understanding the Medieval Cathedral
• Robert A. Scott
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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An accessible overview of the medieval cathedral, its history, design and architecture with black-and-white photographs.
(EUR190, $17.95)
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Henri Matisse 1869-1954, Master of Color
• Volkmar Essers
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A slim collection of 300 color reproductions.
(ART45, $9.99)
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Here Is Where We Meet
• John Berger
• LITERATURE
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This novel weaves a portrait of several European countries through encounters with the dead, from the narrator's mother, whom he discovers on a park bench in Lisbon, to a childhood friend wandering a market in Krakow.
(EUR189, $14.00)
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Here Is Where We Meet
• John Berger
• LITERATURE
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This novel weaves a portrait of several European countries through encounters with the dead, from the narrator's mother, whom he discovers on a park bench in Lisbon, to a childhood friend wandering a market in Krakow.
(EUR189, $14.00)
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Horse of Pride, Life in a Breton Village
• Pierre-Jakez Helias
• June Guicharnaud
• LITERATURE
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A richly detailed novel of Breton lives, culture and folklore in the wake of World War I.
(FRN344, $26.00)
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Impressionism: Origins, Practice, Reception
• Belinda Thomson
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A short, readable account of the French Impressionist movement and its most notable artists, illustrated with color reproductions. This book's thoughtful analyses of individual works are illuminated by solid historical and cultural background.
(FRN310, $16.95)
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Le Divorce
• Diane Johnson
• LITERATURE
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This wonderfully written novel doubles as a study of French and American convention.
(FRN56, $15.00)
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Life With Picasso
• Francoise Gilot
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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The intimate memoir of Francoise Gilot, who met Picasso in 1943 when she was 21 and he was 62, and lived with the artist for nearly ten years.
(ART42, $15.00)
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Life With Picasso
• Francoise Gilot
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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The intimate memoir of Francoise Gilot, who met Picasso in 1943 when she was 21 and he was 62, and lived with the artist for nearly ten years.
(ART42, $15.00)
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Little-known Museums in and Around Paris
• Rachel Kaplan
• GUIDEBOOK
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A high quality, illustrated guide to off-the-beaten-path museums in Paris. The author presents thirty little-known artistic, cultural and historic museums on subjects ranging from music to crystal dolls to magic.
(FRN16, $19.95)
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The Longest Day: June 6, 1944
• Cornelius Ryan
• HISTORY
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Long the standard history of the Allied invasion of Normandy, Ryan's visceral account of men at war is skillfully written and accurate. First published in 1959.
(FRN382, $15.00)
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Mammals of Europe
• Priscilla Barrett
• David W. MacDonald
• FIELD GUIDE
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Published by Princeton, this is a field guide to land and marine mammals throughout Europe, both endemic and introduced. With more than 600 color illustrations of over 200 mammals.
(FG61, $34.95)
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A Moveable Feast
• Ernest Hemingway
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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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)
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The Normans
• David Crouch
• HISTORY
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A social and political history by a professor of medieval history at the University of Hull.
(EUR175, $29.95)
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The Normans
• Trevor Rowley
• HISTORY
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An archaeological perspective on the Normans with a good, illustrated chapter on castles.
(EUR176, $27.50)
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Overlord, D-Day and the Battle for Normandy
• Max Hastings
• HISTORY
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A readable and well researched account of "Operation Overlord," the name given to the Allied Invasion of Europe.
(WAR20, $25.95)
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Paul Cezanne
• Meyer Schapiro
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A short analysis of the Impressionist painter Cezanne and his work.
(FRN250, $24.95)
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Pegasus Bridge
• Stephen Ambrose
• HISTORY
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Detailed and engrossing, this volume tells of the British airborne troops whose attack on German defense forces on June 6, 1944, opened the door for the Allied invasion of Normandy.
(WAR18, $13.00)
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Picasso, The Early Years 1892-1906
• Pablo Picasso
• Marilyn McCully
• Natasha Staller
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A collection of essays about Picasso's formative years as an artist, featuring hundreds of drawings, plates and photographs.
(ART43, $25.00)
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Pimsleur Quick & Simple French
• Pimsleur Language Method
• LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
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Four audio CDs with eight 30-minute lessons in basic French, covering elementary vocabulary and phrases used in travel and everyday situations.
(FRN523, $19.95)
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Rick Steves' French Phrase Book & Dictionary
• Rick Steves
• LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
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A compact phrase book for travelers, organized thematically and with a brief dictionary. It's peppered with humor and Rick Steves' insider insight into how to break the ice and make friends around the world.
(FRN366, $7.95)
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Rick Steves' French, Italian & German Phrase Book & Dictionary
• Rick Steves
• LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
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A compact phrase book for travelers, organized thematically and with a brief dictionary.
(EUR142, $9.95)
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Short Stories in French
• Richard Coward
• LITERATURE
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From Daniel Boulanger's exploration of revenge and the desire for recognition in "The Hunter's Cafe," to Alain Gerber's brief and poetic "You Never Die," these stories make good reading in any language. A volume in New Penguin Parallel Texts.
(FRN594, $14.00)
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South Wind Through the Kitchen, The Best of Elizabeth David
• Elizabeth David
• FOOD
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A selection of 200 recipes and travel essays from Elizabeth David's nine influential books, including Book of Mediterranean Food and French Country Cooking.
(MED30, $18.95)
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To Travel Hopefully, Footsteps In The French Cevennes
• Christopher Rush
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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In this beautifully written, moving tale of getting through grief, Rush heads to France with a donkey on the trail of fellow Scot Robert Louis Stevenson.
(FRN534, $17.95)
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The Tour De France, A Cultural History
• C. S. Thompson
• HISTORY
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This lively, engaging history of the famous cycling event goes beyond a simple history of the race to consider the Tour de France and its meaning in a wider cultural context.
(FRN584, $18.95)
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Travelers' Tales Paris
• James O'Reilly
• ANTHOLOGY
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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)
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Travelers' Tales, A Woman's Europe
• Marybeth Bond
• Mary Morris
• ANTHOLOGY
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Visit Europe through the eyes of women writers, including Frances Mayes and Jan Morris.
(EUR160, $17.95)
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Travelers' Tales, A Woman's Europe
• Marybeth Bond
• Mary Morris
• ANTHOLOGY
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Visit Europe through the eyes of women writers, including Frances Mayes and Jan Morris.
(EUR160, $17.95)
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Upper and Lower Normandy Map
• IGN
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A map that covers the route of the Seine from Paris to the Atlantic Ocean.
(FRN231, $11.95)
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Vive La Revolution, A Stand-up History of the French Revolution
• Mark Steel
• HISTORY
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This "stand-up history" hits all the major points of the French revolution in a distinctly unique (and hilarious) style. Steel, as you might guess, is a British comedian with a flair for history.
(FRN609, $14.00)
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Walking in France, Exploring France's Great Towns And Finest Landscapes on Foot
• John Souter
• Gillian Souter
• GUIDEBOOK
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A wonderful guide for the independent traveler, featuring walks in a variety of French locations and settings.
(FRN533, $20.00)
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William the Conqueror, The Norman Impact Upon England
• David C. Douglas
• HISTORY
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A classic account of the Norman invasion of England and its aftermath.
(GBR249, $22.95)
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