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READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE
Here's a page from Longitude, the specialty bookseller for travelers. To order online, and to see the latest, most comprehensive selection of books and maps, go to http://reading.longitudebooks.com/LO7074. You may also call 800-342-2164 to order or request a catalog.
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Eyewitness Guide Dordogne & Southwest France
Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK
2006
PAPER
320 PAGES
An outstanding guide to exploring Southwest France, featuring hundreds of color illustrations, local and regional maps and site diagrams.
(FRN580, $25.00) |
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Bordeaux and its Wines
Robert Joseph
FOOD
2008
PAPER
144 PAGES
Replete with vivid photographs, this guide to the Bordeaux region contains excellent information on wine making and wine buying.
(FRN762, $19.95) |
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The Lost Upland, Stories of Southwest France
W.S. Merwin
LITERATURE
2005
PAPER
320 PAGES
Three richly evocative stories of life in a Dordogne village by the Pulitzer Prize-winning Merwin, one of our finest living poets. Originally published in 1992, the book is steeped in history, food and personality. The author owns a house in Loubressac overlooking the Dordogne.
(FRN11, $16.00) |
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The Road from the Past, Traveling through History in France
Ina Caro
HISTORY
1996
PAPER
339 PAGES
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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Bordeaux Map
IGN
MAP
A magificently detailed map of the city of Bordeaux and surrounding areas at a scale of 1:13,000, bundled with a 68-page index. Published by IGN, the French National Geographic Institute. Two Sides. 26x47 inches.
(FRN295, $9.95) |
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Bordeaux Wine Region Map
IGN
A regional map of Bordeaux, shown at a scale of 1:250,000.
(FRN203, $12.95) |
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Blue Guide Southwest France
Delia Gray-Durant
GUIDEBOOK
A compact guide with a strong focus on history and architecture, including the region's prehistoric caves and grottos, splendid medieval towns, castles and cathedrals.
(FRN53, $28.95) |
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Bordeaux, A Consumer's Guide to the World's Finest Wines
Robert M., Jr. Parker
GUIDEBOOK
Parker's wine bible, organized geographically, includes every chateaux in Bordeaux.
(FRN876, $60.00) |
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Michelin Green Guide French Atlantic Coast
Michelin Travel Publications
GUIDEBOOK
COMING IN APRIL
A practical guide to the western coast of France from Nantes and La Rochelle south to Biarritz, with a good fold-out map and helpful local and city maps.
(FRN207, $21.99) |
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Grands Vins, The Finest Chateaux of Bordeaux and Their Wines
Clive Coates
FOOD
From Britain's master wine critic comes this focused study of the Bordeaux region of France and its tradition of producing fine wine.
(FRN210, $65.00) |
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The Food of France
Waverly Root
FOOD
An evocative and beautifully written survey of French food. First published in 1958 and revised in the mid-1970s, this 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
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
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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French or Foe? Getting the Most Out of Visiting, Living and Working in France
Polly Platt
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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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Wine and War, The French, the Nazis, and the Battle for France's Greatest Treasure
Donald Kladstrup
HISTORY
This thrilling account of how the vinters saved their crops -- and their bottles -- as the Nazis approached shows that to be French is not just to fight for your country but also for its wine.
(FRN874, $14.95) |
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Cathedrals and Castles, Building in the Middle Ages
Alain Erlande-Brandenburg
ART & ARCHITECTURE
HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE
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, $12.95) |
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Adventures on the Wine Route, A Wine Buyer's Tour of France
Kermit Lynch
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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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Birds of Europe
Lars Svensson
Dan Zetterstrom
Killian Mullarney
FIELD GUIDE
FAVORITE
Featuring 3,500 glorious paintings by Killian Mullarney and Dan Zetterstrom, this 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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