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FATHER'S DAY

City of Fortune, How Venice Ruled the Seas

Roger Crowley

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PROVENCE & THE COTE D'AZUR

A Pig in Provence: Good Food and Simple Pleasures in the South of France

Georgeanne Brennan

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OUR FAVORITES

Arctic Dreams

Barry Lopez

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PENGUIN CLASSICS

The Log from the Sea of Cortez

John Steinbeck

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FRANCE: ALSACE

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The Age of Napoleon

The Age of Napoleon


by Alistair Horne

  • HISTORY
  • 2006
  • PAPER
  • 218 PAGES

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 Discovery of France

The Discovery of France


by Graham Robb

  • HISTORY
  • 2008
  • PAPER
  • 480 PAGES

Winner of the 2008 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, Robb's erudite portrait, the result of time both in the library and on his bicycle, marvelously illuminates the rural byways, history and charting of France. (FRN770, $17.95)

France on the Brink, A Great Civilization Faces the New Century

France on the Brink, A Great Civilization Faces the New Century


by Jonathan Fenby

  • CULTURAL PORTRAIT
  • 1999
  • PAPER
  • 449 PAGES
  • OUT OF PRINT

A timely cultural portrait by a British journalist and Francophile, interweaving current events, travel, commentary history and culture. Apart from his obvious wit and love of life, Fenby's addiitonal credentials include a French wife -- and a French Order of Merit. (FRN175, $16.95)

 

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