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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)
Discovering Wine Country, Bordeaux
Monty Waldin
GUIDEBOOK 2005 PAPER 144 PAGES
This handy guide to Bordeaux and its wines, featuring 100 color photographs and 12 maps, includes an overview of the wines of the region from Medoc to Sauternes, suggested wine tours, traveler's tips and recommended producers.
(FRN501, $19.95)
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)
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)
Bordeaux Map
IGN
MAP
A detailed map of the city of Bordeaux and surrounding areas at a scale of 1:13,000 with index. Published by IGN, the French National Geographic Institute.
(FRN295, $9.95)
Bordeaux Wine Region Map
IGN
A regional map of Bordeaux, shown at a scale of 1:250,000.
(FRN203, $12.95)
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)
Michelin Green Guide Atlantic Coast: Poitou, Aquitaine, the Basque Country
Michelin Travel Publications
GUIDEBOOK
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, $21.95)
Rick Steves' French Phrase Book & Dictionary
Rick Steves
LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
A compact phrase book for travelers, organized thematically and with a brief dictionary. It's peppered with humor and Rick Steves' insider insight into how to break the ice and make friends around the world.
(FRN366, $7.95)
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)
The Food of France
Waverly Root
FOOD
A classic and aromatic survey of French food, beautifully written. First published in 1958 and revised in the mid-1970's, 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, $17.95)
A Traveller's History of France
Robert Cole
HISTORY
A fast-moving survey of French history, from the conquests of ancient Gaul through the heady days of revolution to modern times.
(FRN08, $14.95)
A World Lit Only By Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance, Portrait of an Age
William Manchester
HISTORY
In this wide-ranging study, Manchester evokes in vivid detail the great figures and daily life of the 16th century, with information on Henry VIII, Magellan, Borgia, da Vinci and Martin Luther.
(EUR06, $15.99)
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, entertaining guide to the French and how to get along with them. An expanded third edition includes the French romance with cell phones and a short chapter with recent vignettes.
(FRN54, $16.95)
The French
Theodore Zeldin
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
OUT OF PRINT
A stimulating and very entertaining social history in the guise of a "how-to" book. Zeldin considers, for example, such imponderables as when to laugh at a joke, how to be friends with a peasant, and how to eat properly.
(FRN31, $17.00)
Cathedrals and Castles, Building in the Middle Ages
Alain Erlande-Brandenburg
ART & ARCHITECTURE
HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE
A pocket-size encyclopedia of the art, architecture and culture of the Middle Ages. It features hundreds of drawings and color illustrations, a brief chronology and plenty more information.
(MED07, $12.95)
Journey Through the Ice Age
Paul Bahn
Jean Vertut
ART & ARCHITECTURE
OUT OF PRINT
Illustrated with extraordinary color photographs by Jean Vertut, this authoritative book is an excellent summary of Paleolithic art, and particularly of cave paintings, throughout Europe.
(EUR07, $27.50)
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)
Birds of Europe
Killian Mullarney
Lars Svensson
Dan Zetterstrom
Peter J. Grant
FIELD GUIDE
FAVORITE
A Princeton field guide to European birds, featuring 3,500 color illustrations that depict 722 species found across the continent.
(FG47, $29.95)
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