Provence A-Z A Francophile's Essential Handbook |
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Author:
| Mayle, Peter |
Read by:
| Mayle, Peter |
ISBN: | 978-0-7393-4025-7 |
Publication Date: | Oct 2006 |
Publisher: | Random House Audio Publishing Group
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Imprint: | RH Audio |
Book Format: | Audio |
List Price: | USD $19.95 |
Book Description:
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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,...
More DescriptionAn 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, legends, lavender, linguistic oddities, the origins of "La Marseillaise," wild boars and Frenchwinds. And, of course, he writes about food and drink. Provence A--Z is a delight for Peter Mayle's ever-growing audience and these unabridged selections are the perfect complement to any guidebook on Provence, or, for that matter, France. "From the Audio Download edition."