Corkscrewed: Adventures in the New French Wine Country |
Robert Camuto ISBN: 0803276354 Robert V. Camuto's interest in wine turned into a passion when he moved to France and began digging into local soils and cellars. "Corkscrewed" recounts Camuto's journey through France's myriad regions - and how the journey brought about a...(read more) |
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Cycling the Canal Du Midi |
Declan Lyons ISBN: 1852845597 The Canal du Midi in France's sunny southern Languedoc is a UNESCO world heritage site. Its 240km route meanders through lush, beautiful countryside rich in history and culture, linking Toulouse and Sete. It is a perfect cycling country with flat,...(read more) |
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Hot Sun, Cool Shadow: Savouring the Food, History and Mystery of the Languedoc |
Angela Murrills, Peter Matthews (Illustrator) ISBN: 0749083549 An unabashed celebration of the joys of food and cooking, Hot Sun, Cool Shadow follows the story of award-winning food-writer Angela Murrills and the artist Peter Matthews, who travel together to the southerly French region of Languedoc. The Languedoc...(read more) |
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Monsieur Mackintosh: The Travels and Paintings of Charles Rennie Mackintosh in the Pyrenees Orientales: 1923-1927 |
Robin Crichton ISBN: 190522236X In 1923 Charles and Margaret Mackintosh escaped Britain for France. "Charles Rennie Mackintosh in Rousillon" is the only book available on Mackintosh's years in France. With reproductions of 40 of his French paintings alongside photographs of...(read more) |
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Notes from the Languedoc |
Rupert Wright ISBN: 009190563X It is easy to get to the Languedoc. Follow the Rhone south through France, then once you hit the Mediterranean coast, turn right. The mystery is that for generations people have been turning left in the direction of Provence and Italy. This lack of a...(read more) |
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Pardon My French: Unleash Your Inner Gaul |
Charles Timoney ISBN: 1846140528 Based on twenty years of hard-won knowledge, "Pardon My French" takes you through all the words you need to survive, shows how and why they work, and steers you past all the pitfalls and potential embarrassments of speaking French in France. |
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Songs of Blue and Gold |
Deborah Lawrenson ISBN: 0099505193 Sometimes the key to the future lies in the past...In the horseshoe bay of Kalami in Corfu, a tumultuous love affair begins between a renowned novelist and a woman escaping scandal. Years later, her daughter Melissa, running from her own past, returns...(read more) |
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Thomas Jefferson's Journey to the South of France |
by Roy Moore (Author), Alma Moore (Author) ISBN: 1556708920 In the middle 1980s, the Moore's first took the official tour replicating Jefferson's three-month journey in the spring of 1787, and have returned often to capture in color photographs the scenes he might have seen, i.e. devoid of automobiles,...(read more) |
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Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes |
Robert Louis Stevenson, Laurence Phillips ISBN: 0955824737 "What it is to be young, to load a donkey with all one's belongings. The last whim of exquisite youth." --Frasers Magazine - first edition 1895...(read more) |
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Two Vagabonds in Languedoc: Classic Portrait of a French Village |
Jan Gordon, Cora Gordon ISBN: 1903071119 "Two Vagabonds in Languedoc" - written in 1925 - is Jan and Cora Gordon's charming and evocative sketch of the French village of Najac. Return today to the very same village on the border of the Departments of Tarn and Aveyron and many of the...(read more) |
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