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Provence & the Cote d'Azur   |   READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE

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U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXFRN505)		  
The Most Beautiful Villages of Provence  •  Michael Jacobs
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •  2012 •  PAPER  • 224 PAGES • COMING IN MAY
With an excellent introduction on the history, culture, landscapes and the pleasures of Southern France, this illusrtated guide features 34 towns and villages in Provence. The book opens with the villages of the Vaucluse and the Bouches-du-Rhone, the region of such architectural gems as Bonnieux and Gordes. Moving east to the Var and eventually the mountains of the Alpine departments, we visit tranquil villages of the center like Les Arcs, set amid some of the finest vineyards of southern France (FRN28, $26.95)		   The Most Beautiful Villages of Provence
A Pig in Provence: Good Food and Simple Pleasures in the South of France  •  Georgeanne Brennan
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •  2007 •  HARD COVER  • 209 PAGES • FAVORITE • HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE
With the launch party at Chez Panisse, you better believe that Brennan is devoted to food. She writes in this brief, thoroughly appealing memoir of making cheese, buying and butchering pigs, hunting for truffles and the simple joy of country living. Each section ends with a recipe. (FRN687, $12.95)		   A Pig in Provence: Good Food and Simple Pleasures in the South of France
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)		   The Road from the Past, Traveling through History in France
Eyewitness Guide Provence & the Cote D'Azur  •  Roger Williams
GUIDEBOOK •  2012 •  PAPER  • 272 PAGES
This superb guide, another entry in the excellent Eyewitness series, features color photography, dozens of excellent local maps and a district-by-district synopsis of attractions in both Provence and the Riviera, including Avignon, Arles, Marseille, Nice and Cannes. (FRN18, $23.00)		   Eyewitness Guide Provence & the Cote D'Azur
Provence Alps French Riviera Map 527  •  Michelin Travel Publications
2008 •  MAP
A colorful and detailed map of the region from the southern Alps south to the Carmargue, Marseille, Toulon, Cannes and Nice at a scale of 1:200,000. An excellent map for travelers on the Rhone River. Two Sides. 40x61 inches. (FRN22, $11.95)		   Provence Alps French Riviera Map 527



Also Recommended

Cadogan Guide Cote D'Azur  •  Dana Facaros   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A guide in the respected series with insightful cultural and historical background, and up-to-date practical information, illustrations and maps. (FRN808, $19.95)
 		  
Insight Guide Provence  •  Cathy Muscat   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A handy guide in the popular series, this Insight regional guide, noteworthy for its color photographs and maps, includes a section of practical information and a pull-out color map. (FRN781, $18.99)
 		  
Lonely Planet French Phrasebook  •  Marie-Helene Girard  •  Anny Monet   • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS  •  This handy phrasebook focuses on pronunciation, basic grammar and essential vocabulary for the traveler. (FRN120, $8.99)
 		  
Made in France, A Shopper's Guide  •  Laura Morelli   • GUIDEBOOK  •  Both a fascinating history of France's artisanal legacy and an insider's shopping guide, Made in France includes illustrations, maps, a primer on French shopping culture, and craft festivals. (FRN706, $24.95)
 		  
Pardon My French, Unleash Your Inner Gaul  •  Charles Timoney   • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS  •  A transplated Englishman, Tomney reveals how to get by in French (and in France) though this wickedly funny A-to-Z of words and phrases. (FRN865, $15.00)
 		  
Patricia Wells at Home in Provence, Recipes Inspired by Her Farmhouse in France  •  Patricia Wells   • FOOD  •  Award-winning cookbook writer and critic Patricia Wells takes her knowledge of French cuisine to the home kitchen in this luxurious coffee-table collection of recipes from Provence. (FRN114, $24.00)
 		  
Colors of Provence  •  Michel Biehn  •  Heinz Angermayr   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A handsome sourcebook and celebration of the French countryside, its culture, landscapes and traditions, organized by color and scattered throughout with recipes, quotes and notes. (FRN173, $12.98)
 		  
Four Queens, The Provencal Sisters Who Ruled Europe  •  Nancy Goldstone   • HISTORY  •  Transporting you back to back to the apogee of independent Provençal power in the Middle Ages, Goldstone captures the drama of 13th-century Europe in this history of the four daughters of the count of Provence -- future queens of France, England, Germany and Sicily. (FRN945, $15.00)
 		  
Old Provence  •  Theodore Andrea Cook  •  James Ferguson   • HISTORY  •  A reprint of the classic 1905 account of travels through Provence, focusing on the history the region from Greek and Roman temples to Medieval market towns and castles. (FRN257, $16.00)
 		  
Provence A-Z  •  Peter Mayle   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A companion to all things Provencal, from bouillabaisse to lavender and vinaigre, by the British expatriate and Francophile Peter Mayle. (FRN619, $14.95)
 		  
Provence, A Cultural History  •  Martin Garrett   • HISTORY  •  Through its architecture, literature and popular culture, Garrett analyzes and celebrates the identity of this beloved region. (FRN601, $35.00)
 		  
Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong  •  Jean-Benoit Nadeau  •  Julie Barlow   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  This lively, astute examination by two Canadian journalists tackles the contradictions and complexities of the French character, paying particular attention to the question of why the French resist globalization. (FRN755, $16.95)
 		  
The Popes of Avignon, A Century in Exile  •  Edwin Mullins   • HISTORY  •  Grounded in the architecrure and papal legacy in Avignon and the surrounding area, this engaging history sets the 70-year period of papal exile in the south of France against the context of Europe's turbulent transition from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. (FRN806, $14.95)
 		  
The Yellow House  •  Martin Gayford   • HISTORY  •  Gayfor chronicles the turbulent three months and texture of the daily lives of Van Gogh and Gauguin in Arles, where they worked side by side in 1888. With 60 b&W reproductions. (FRN997, $14.95)
 		  
Vincent Van Gogh, The Passionate Eye  •  Pascal Bonafoux   • ART & ARCHITECTURE • FAVORITE  •  From Paris to Asnieres, Amsterdam and Provence, this jewel of a book traces the life and art of Vincent Van Gogh, the spirited, self-destructive painter who celebrated the south of France. Engaging, compact and illustrated with hundreds of photographs. (FRN29, $12.95)
 		  
A Year in Provence  •  Peter Mayle   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  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. (FRN19, $14.95)
 		  
My Father's Glory and My Mother's Castle  •  Marcel Pagnol   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Best known as a filmmaker, Pagnol evokes his childhood in Provence and Marseilles fifty years ago. These memoirs sparkle with delight in the people, landscapes and daily life of southern France. (FRN178, $28.00)
 		  
Provence, From Minstrels to the Machine  •  Ford Madox Ford   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Madox Ford probes the history, attractions and pleasures of the region in this spirited classic, with illustrations by his companion Biala, written during their time on the Mediterranean coast. (FRN110, $28.95)
 		  
Two Towns in Provence  •  M. F. K. Fisher   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • FAVORITE  •  Celebrated food writer M.F.K. Fisher contrasts village life in Aix-en-Provence with bustling Marseilles, evoking both with anecdote and loving description. (FRN27, $16.95)
 		  
Death at the Chateau Bremont  •  M.L. Longworth   • MYSTERY  •  A lively whodunit steeped in the rich, enticing, and romantic atmosphere of Aix-en-Provence, Death at the Chateau Bremont introduces Antoine Verlaque, the handsome and seductive chief magistrate of Aix, and his sometime love interest, law professor Marine Bonnet. (FRN972, $14.00)
 		  
Joy of Man's Desiring  •  Jean Giono   • LITERATURE  •  A twentieth century master of letters, Giono's fiction invokes the folklore and traditions of his birthplace in southern France. (FRN193, $15.95)
 		  
The Fly-Truffler, A Novel  •  Gustaf Sobin   • LITERATURE  •  Gustaf Sobin (1935-2005) sets his luminous love story in the orchards, forests and fields of his adopted Provence. (FRN820, $12.00)
 		  
 
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