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Provence A-Z

A Francophile's Essential Handbook

Provence A-Z( )
Author: Mayle, Peter
Read by: Mayle, Peter
ISBN:978-0-7393-4025-7
Publication Date:Oct 2006
Publisher:Random House Audio Publishing Group
Imprint:RH Audio
Book Format:Audio
List Price:USD $19.95
Book Description:

An indispensable, richly informative, and always entertaining sourcebook on Provence by the writer who has made the region his own. Though organized from A to Z, this is hardly a conventional work of reference. It is rather a selection of those aspects of Provence that Peter Mayle in almost twenty years there has found to be the most interesting, curious, delicious, or downright fun. He writes about subjects as diverse as architecture, expatriates, scorpions, the Provencal character,...
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Book Details
Detailed Subjects: Travel / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.06 x 5.92 x 0.65 Inches
Book Weight:0.26 Pounds
Author Biography
Mayle, Peter (Author)
Peter Mayle was born in Brighton, England on June 14, 1939. He began his career in advertising as a copywriter and rose to the executive ranks, but left advertising in 1975 to write educational books, including a series on sex education for children and young adults. His educational books including Where Did I Come From? and What's Happening to Me?

His travel memoir, A Year in Provence, received the British Book Awards' Best Travel Book of the Year in 1990 and was adapted into a television mini-series. His other nonfiction books included Toujours Provence, Encore Provence, Provence A-Z, and French Lessons: Adventures with Knife, Fork and Corkscrew. His fiction books included The Marseille Caper, The Corsican Caper, and A Good Year, which was adapted into a 2006 film of the same name starring Russell Crowe and Marion Cotillard. Mayle died on January 18, 2018 at the age of 78.

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