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FRANCE
Loire Valley
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READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE
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Eyewitness Guide Loire Valley
• Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK •
2010 •
PAPER
• 264 PAGES
Visually rich, comprehensive, and practical, this guidebook is an excellent introduction to the history, culture and attractions of the Loire Valley. Highly recommended.
(FRN43, $23.00) |
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Cathedrals and Castles, The Cathedral Builders of the Middle Ages
• Alain Erlande-Brandenburg
ART & ARCHITECTURE •
2010 •
PAPER
• 175 PAGES
This pocket-size encyclopedia of the art, architecture and culture of the Middle Ages features hundreds of drawings, color illustrations and a brief chronology. Take it along to gain a better appreciation of the Middle Ages and its legacy in Europe.
(MED07, $15.95) |
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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) |
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France Centre Map 518
• Michelin Travel Publications
MAP
A colorful map of central France, including the Loire valley, Tours, Orleans and Bourges, at a scale of 1:200,000. Two Sides. 39x52 inches.
(FRN241, $11.95) |
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Also Recommended
Loire Valley Map 517
• Michelin Travel Publications
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A map of the Loire region of France in the series published by Michelin series, at a scale of 1:200,000.
(FRN302, $12.95)
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Cadogan Guide Loire
• Phillipe Barbour
• GUIDEBOOK
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A personable guide in the relaunched series.
(FRN910, $21.95)
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Lonely Planet French Phrasebook
• Marie-Helene Girard
• Anny Monet
• LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
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This handy phrasebook focuses on pronunciation, basic grammar and essential vocabulary for the traveler.
(FRN120, $8.99)
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Michelin Green Guide Chateaux of the Loire
• Rach Mills
• GUIDEBOOK
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With the same focus on driving tours, maps and the Michelin star system, the venerable Green Guides are now organized regionally, in color and with an overview of history, art and culture.
(FRN965, $21.99)
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The Food of France
• Waverly Root
• FOOD
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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).
(FRN17, $18.00)
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A Traveller's History of France
• Robert Cole
• HISTORY
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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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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, $30.00)
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The Discovery of France
• Graham Robb
• HISTORY
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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)
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The Loire, A Cultural History
• Martin Garrett
• HISTORY
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Garrett traces the course of the Loire, the longest river in France (Gustave Flaubert called the Loire "the most French of French rivers.") through literature, art and architecture.
(FRN961, $16.95)
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The Most Beautiful Villages of the Loire
• James Bentley
• Hugh Palmer
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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An illustrated portrait of the region, its landscape, architecture, and people, featuring 275 color photographs and accompanying lively essays by Francophile James Bentley.
(FRN483, $40.00)
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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 and warmly anecdotal book, highly recommended for anyone touring the wine regions of France. Lynch brings the domains and appellations of French wine to full-blown life, and his portraits of the grand personalities who make the wine are priceless.
(FRN72, $19.00)
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French Revolutions, Cycling the Tour De France
• Tim Moore
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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British humorist, travel writer -- and woefully inexperienced cyclist -- Moore attempts to tackle the Tour de France, all 2,256 miles of it, in this hilarious, irreverent travelogue.
(FRN387, $15.99)
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Joan of Arc
• Mary Gordon
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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In elegant, insightful prose, novelist Gordon meditates on the courageous and complex young girl and the iconic status she has acquired.
(FRN753, $15.00)
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Chocolat
• Joanne Harris
• LITERATURE
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This charming novel set in the Loire Valley pits provincial morals against pleasure. Adapted into a popular movie.
(FRN484, $15.00)
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In a Dark Wood Wandering, A Novel of the Middle Ages
• Hella Haasse
• LITERATURE
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With a cast of thousands including Joan of Arc and the Dukes of Burgundy, this 1949 historical novel renders the political intrigue, people and texture of 15th-century Europe. With a magisterial grasp of the era, Haasse captures medieval court life during the Hundred Years War.
(FRN86, $21.95)
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Birds of Europe
• Lars Svensson
• FIELD GUIDE
• FAVORITE
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Featuring 3,500 glorious paintings by Killian Mullarney and Dan Zetterstrom, the 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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