France in the New Century |
 John Ardagh
ISBN: 0140259228
Presenting a portrait of changes in French society since 1945, with the accent on the France of the mid-1990s, this book's main focus is on society, culture and the economy, but space is also given to politics. |
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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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Signs of the Heart: Love and Death in Languedoc |
 Christopher Hope
ISBN: 0330367048
Hope's dispatches from the French Front - from the villages, cafes, bars and junk shops of Languedoc - do not describe rural idyll but a world of rogues and raconteurs, lovers and losers whose two preoccupations are inextricably entwined: love and...(read more) |
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The Avignon Quintet |
 Lawrence Durrell
ISBN: 0571163092
An omnibus edition of the five novels published by Durrell in a kaleidoscopic sequence between 1974 and 1985. The books are set mainly in Avignon and the ancient kingdom of Provence, though significant episodes in the quintet are set in the Egyptian...(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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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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Vegetarian France |
 Alex Bourke et al
ISBN: 1902259009
A comprehensive guide to vegetarian France. It includes 150 places to eat and sleep, over 20 veggie restaurants in Paris alone, vegetarian hotels and guesthouses, all-you-can-eat vegan buffets in Paris and Marseille, veggie vocabulary, the hitchhikers...(read more) |
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Walking in the Languedoc: 32 Routes in Haute Languedoc |
 John Cross
ISBN: 1852845236
The Languedoc has for too long been in the shadow of Provence. Sharing the same Mediterranean climate and vegetation, it has not had done to it what Peter Mayle did for the Luberon - yet! Apart from its beaches, it is a quiet, beautiful place which...(read more) |
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