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PORTRAITS OF SOUTHERN FRANCE
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Lac d'Annecy Map
• IGN
2003 •
MAP
This detailed walking map shows Lake d'Annecy and the immediate surroundings in the French Alps at a scale 1:25,000. The topographic map, which covers an area of approximately 12 x 9 miles, shows footpaths, huts and refuges, contour lines, GPS coordinates and attractions of local interest. One Side. 38x52 inches.
(FRN489, $12.95) |
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Made in France, A Shopper's Guide
• Laura Morelli
GUIDEBOOK •
2008 •
PAPER
• 208 PAGES
Scented gloves, handmade umbrellas, angelic porcelain, local digestifs: everything listed in Morelli's intricate guidebook is crafted by hand. Learn where to find lavender-and-rosemary infused hair oil, the secret to keeping your hair and skin healthy during Southern France's warmest months!
(FRN706, $24.95) |
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Patricia Wells at Home in Provence, Recipes Inspired by Her Farmhouse in France
• Patricia Wells
FOOD •
1999 •
PAPER
• 355 PAGES
Award-winning cookbook writer and critic Patricia Wells takes her knowledge of French cuisine to the home kitchen in this collection, larded with tales of friends, feasts and food.
(FRN114, $24.00) |
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The Food of France
• Waverly Root
FOOD •
1992 •
PAPER
• 450 PAGES
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). A great read for anyone interested in the foundation of French cuisine.
(FRN17, $18.00) |
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The Alps, A Cultural History
• Andrew Beattie
HISTORY •
2006 •
HARD COVER
• 256 PAGES
Andrew Beattie explores the turbulent past and vibrant present of the Alps, where early pioneers of tourism, mountaineering and scientific research, along with the enduring legacies of historical regimes from the Romans to the Nazis, have all left their mark.
(ALP30, $35.00) |
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The Most Beautiful Villages of Burgundy
• James Bentley
• Hugh Palmer
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •
1998 •
HARD COVER
• 224 PAGES
Divided geographically, this handsome book is an illustrated portrait of the region, its landscape, architecture and people. Color photographs accompany lively essays by travel writer James Bentley. With maps, a travel guide -- and 260 photographs.
(FRN80, $40.00) |
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Scrambles Amongst the Alps: In the Years 1860-69
• Edward Whymper
EXPLORATION •
2002 •
PAPER
• 320 PAGES
Edward Wymper's vivid account of Victorian-era mountaineering, a classic, captures the geography, beauty and allure of the Alps. The intrepid Whymper made the first ascents of several important peaks in the Andes and the Alps, including famously the Matterhorn.
(ALP02, $16.00) |
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A Tramp Abroad
• Mark Twain
• David Eggers
• Kerry Driscoll
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
2003 •
PAPER
• 400 PAGES
Written 11 years after Innocents Abroad, this is Twain's second foray into European travel. Filled with his characteristic wit and humorous observations, it documents his journeys through Germany, Switzerland, France and Italy. This Modern Library Classics edition includes an introduction by Dave Eggers, new explanatory notes and a critical afterword.
(EUR78, $14.95) |
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A Life of Her Own
• Emilie Carles
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •
1992 •
PAPER
• 271 PAGES
This memoir of life in the French Alps was a French bestseller when first published in 1977. Born in 1900, Carnes tells of her childhood, her life on the farm, her career as a teacher and her involvement in political and feminist movements, including a popular campaign to stop a highway proposed for her Alpine valley.
(FRN468, $16.00) |
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A Moveable Feast
• Ernest Hemingway
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •
1996 •
PAPER
• 211 PAGES
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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A Year in Provence
• Peter Mayle
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
1991 •
PAPER
• 207 PAGES
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. From the best meals in the valley to shady dealings with black-market truffle-hunters to the trials of finding construction workers who will finish their work within a given decade, this loving, mirth-filled picture of the Vaucluse is a mouth-watering treat.
(FRN19, $14.95) |
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Cham
• Jonathan Trigell
LITERATURE •
2009 •
PAPER
Trigell (Boy A), a British author who lives in Chamonix, captures the beauty of the region, the allure of the slopes -- and the vibe of a sub-culture in this edgy novel with a serial rapist on the loose. He weaves the tale of a callow man named Itchy and his obsessive search for a killer with strands of a book, in the 19th-century style, on Byron and the Romantic poets into a satisfying thriller.
(ALP39, $16.95) |
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The Silent Land, A Novel
• Graham Joyce
LITERATURE •
2011 •
HARD COVER
• 272 PAGES
In the French Alps around Chamonix, a young married couple is buried under a flash avalanche while skiing. They manage to dig themselves out only to emerge into a silent, mysteriously uninhabited world. As the couple begin to witness unsettling events neither one can ignore, they are forced to confront a frightening truth about the silent land they now inhabit.
(ALP41, $23.95) |
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The Dream of Scipio
• Iain Pears
MYSTERY •
2003 •
PAPER
• 464 PAGES
This edifying, complex historical novel interweaves three stories set in the lower Rhone Valley of Provence during thee dark periods: the fall of Roman civilization; the coming of the plague; and the fall of France to the Nazis. By the author of An Instance of the Fingerpost.
(FRN470, $16.00) |
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Killing Dragons, The Conquest of the Alps
• Fergus Fleming
EXPLORATION •
2001 •
PAPER
• 398 PAGES
Fleming spins lively tales of man against nature in this entertaining history of the eccentrics, adventurers and publicity-hounds who sought to conquer the Alps, including Whymper and his first ascent of the Matterhorn (where four of the seven-man team perished).
(ALP16, $14.00) |
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Birds of Europe
• Lars Svensson
FIELD GUIDE •
2010 •
PAPER
• 416 PAGES
• FAVORITE
This Princeton Field Guide features 3,500 illustrations by Killian Mullarney and Dan Zetterstrom. Color plates depict every species -- and sometimes several different variants -- for 722 birds found from the Urals to the Atlantic, Scandinavia to the Middle East.
(FG47, $29.95) |
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Solo Faces
• James Salter
LITERATURE •
1998 •
PAPER
• 218 PAGES
The story of an American climber who, dissatisfied with his everyday life, travels to the Alps of southern France to tackle mountain peaks. The prose is glorious and the mountain-climbing scenes are as vivid as they get. Much of the action takes place in and around Chamonix.
(ALP14, $15.00) |
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Hotel du Lac
• Anita Brookner
LITERATURE •
1995 •
PAPER
• 184 PAGES
This prize-winning novel, which established the author's international reputation, is the story of a romance novelist whose life begins to resemble her plots. Fleeing to Switzerland to the quiet luxury of the Hotel du Lac, she finds not peace and rest, but an assortment of love's wounded and the attention of worldly men. Funny, stylish, and spellbinding, this is a good read.
(SWZ05, $13.95) |
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Chamonix, Mont Blanc Massif (East)
• IGN
MAP
This fabulously detailed topographic map (scale 1:25,000) shows the eastern portion of the Mont Blanc group. In combination with the same publisher's map of the western part of the range (Item FRN315), it's the best map for hikers doing the Mont Blanc circuit. One Side. 48x38 inches.
(FRN314, $19.95) |
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The Botanist and the Vintner, How Wine Was Saved for the World
• Christy Campbell
SCIENCE •
2006 •
PAPER
• 314 PAGES
In this witty book British journalist Christy Campbell interweaves a dramatic tale of the devastation of vineyards in 1860's France with cultural history and the mad race by scientists (and others) to discover the cause and cure. The French were none too pleased that salvation (as well as the disease) came in the form of American root stock. The mysterious disease, ultimately diagnosed as a tiny phyloxerra aphid, threatened vines in Italy, Portugal, Germany and Switzerland. Eastern Europe and as far afield as Australia.
(FRN497, $14.95) |
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