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In this memoir of her buying, renovating, and living in an abandoned villa in Tuscany, Frances Mayes reveals the sensual pleasure she found living in rural Italy, and the generous spirit she brought with her. She revels in the sunlight and the color, the long view of her valley, the warm homey architecture, the languor of the slow paced days, the vigor of working her ...

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Who hasn't dreamed, on a mundane Monday or frowzy Friday, of chucking it all in and packing off to the south of France? Provençal cookbooks and guidebooks entice with provocatively fresh salads and azure skies, but is it really all Côtes-du-Rhône and fleur-de-lis? Author Peter Mayle answers that question with wit, warmth, and wicked candor in A Y...

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Rick Steves, author of 21 guidebooks and host of the television series Travels in Europe with Rick Steves, has spent 100 days a year traveling Europe, every year, since 1973. If any American knows Paris, he does, and his self-imposed mission is to make the city just as accessible to those of us who don't have the good fortune to spend months there at a time.

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Eyewitness Travel Guides are the original illustrated travel guidebooks-and they're still the best. Since 1993, the Eyewitness brand has established itself as one of the industry leaders, with sales of more than 6.5 million copies in the U.S. alone. Featuring more than 70 worldwide destinations, new titles are being added to the best-selling Eyewitness Travel Gu...

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In 1995 Gopnik was offered the plush assignment of writing the "Paris Journals" for the New Yorker. He spent five years in Paris with his wife, Martha, and son, Luke, writing dispatches now collected here along with previously unpublished journal entries. A self-described "comic-sentimental essayist," Gopnik chose the romance of Paris in its particulars as his ...

New York Times
"Don't leave home without STREETWISE."

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Created by Linda Dannenberg and the photographer Guy Bouchet, who together have access to the private farmhouses and glorious gardens of Provence, it is a calendar of intimate glimpses and evocative still lifes. The images are ravishing. Terraced boxwood hedges framing a turreted château. Rows of homemade confitures in a rustic cupboard. A reading corner in...

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With a new design and unbeatable price, DK raises the bar on travel guides with its new Top 10 Travel Guide series.

Whether on business or vacation, take the work out of planning any trip with DK's Top 10 Travel Guides. Building on the success of the Eyewitness Travel Guides, DK has created a new series that makes finding the best every destination has to off...

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Eyewitness Travel Guides are the original illustrated travel guidebooks-and they're still the best. Since 1993, the Eyewitness brand has established itself as one of the industry leaders, with sales of more than 6.5 million copies in the U.S. alone. Featuring more than 70 worldwide destinations, new titles are being added to the best-selling Eyewitness Travel Gu...

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A Francophile’s fantasy through and through, 365 Days in France, is an extended holiday in the land of bistros, rolling vineyards, the Champs-Elysées, St. Tropez, luscious tarte tatin, and Provence landscapes of lavender and sunflowers. And the je ne sais quois of a chance meeting at a sidewalk cafe. Every day comes a lush, full-color portrait, still l...

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Join this magical tour of Paris, and discover the keys to unlock some its most fascinating secrets. The French capital grew outward over the ages in concentric circles from the Ile de la Cite. Follow the author along the boulevards and avenues as he points out famous sights as well as unusual corners and hidden delights en route. His tour is rich in historical b...

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Let's face it. Finding the best of the fabled cuisine in Paris can be difficult for us Americans. We're thrown off by the language, the numerous terms for eateries, and the French themselves, who love to pretend they don't speak English.

That's why Patricia Wells's updated guide, now in its fourth edition, is a hit. With detailed information on 450 restaurants, Wel...

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Text: French, English, German, Spanish --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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From Antarctica to Zimbabwe, if you're going there, chances are Lonely Planet has been there first. With a pithy and matter-of-fact writing style, these guides are guaranteed to calm the nerves of first-time world travelers, while still listing off-the-beaten-path finds sure to thrill even the most jaded globetrotters. Lonely Planet has been perfecting its guidebooks ...

From Publishers Weekly
During the 1970s, Rochefort moved from Shenandoah, Iowa, to Paris, where she met and married her husband, Philippe. Here, she offers her reflections on what it's like to be the wife of a Frenchman and the mother of two French-American children. Although presented with a confidence that comes with long experience, the observations shared (Rochefort's but al...

USA Today
"inveterate travelers who know their cervelle (brains) from cervelle de canut (herbed cheese spread)..."

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Stroll along formal footpaths in the Jardin du Luxembourg and lose yourself in the halls of the Louvre. Whether you are traveling there for the first time or returning to recapture past magic ? Paris is sure to offer you thousands of visual, cultural and culinary delights, making your trip an extraordinary experience! Before leaving on your journey to Paris, be ...

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Experience a place the way the locals do. Enjoy the best it has to offer. And avoid tourist traps. At Frommer’s, we use 150 outspoken travel experts around the world to help you make the right choices. Frommer’s. Your guide to a world of travel experience.

Choose the Only Guide That Gives You:

• Ways to Explore the City of Light from the top o...

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Home to magnificent art museums, romance, breathtaking scenery and some of the world's most revered food, France is one of Europe's most visited countries. View the numerous masterpieces in the Louvre and Musee d'Orsay; admire the ancient Abbey of Mont St. Michel in Normandy; schuss down the slopes in the French Alps, and more. With Rick Steves' France 2004, tra...

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This new edition includes 143 detailed maps (including full-color maps for Paris), an easy-to-follow language section with a regional food glossary, and details on where to stay and eat and how to get around for a range of budgets. color illustrations. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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From Publishers Weekly
British author Mayle shares his adventures in France's Midi in an enchanting book that stayed on PW 's hardcover bestseller list for 19 weeks. His new book, Acquired Tastes , will be published by Bantam in May.
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Peter Mayle, author of the bestselling A Year in Provence has done it again--but differently. Traveling this time beyond his adopted Provence throughout France, the food and travel writer has produced French Lessons, a celebration of many of that country's gastronomic joys. Whether pursuing La Foire de Fromages, the annual cheese fair at Livarot; a Burgu...

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It has been said that food defines a culture. For the French, food is an integral part of their coveted tradition, and Susan Herrmann Loomis's new book On Rue Tatin embraces both. As a young, recent American college graduate, Loomis left the U.S. for France to attend one of the oldest French cooking schools, La Varenne. Her intent was to immerse ...

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The best travel guides ever. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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Let's face it: the French have gotten a bad rap. Mention that you're considering a trip to France and everyone will warn you about rude waiters, supercilious shopkeepers, and snooty concierges who won't give you the time of day--and worse, pretend not to understand your high-school French. Not so, says Polly Platt, author of French or Foe?; "The French are...