Travelers' Tales France: True StoriesJames O'Reilly, Larry Habegger, Sean O'Reilly Travelers' Tales, 2002 - 495 עמודים This newly designed edition of Travelers' Tales France celebrates the culture, history, and joie de vivre of one of the most beloved -- and most visited -- countries on Earth. Acclaimed writers, including Peter Mayle, M.F.K. Fisher, Jon Krakauer, Mort Rosenblum, Alice Kaplan, and Jan Morris, who have fallen in love with France -- with the food, the land, the irrepressible French people -- provide a mesmerizing literary tour of this special place. Opening many windows onto France, this collection reveals the most important reason to visit: to experience life as it should be. "Pays homage to the good life, as defined by the French." -- Los Angeles Times |
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ESSENCE OF FRANCE | 1 |
There Is this Street | 3 |
A Question of Water | 10 |
River of Light | 17 |
April Fool | 34 |
Covert Operations | 37 |
War and Remembrance | 43 |
Love Among the Apples | 60 |
Spanish Heart French Soil | 277 |
Alone Among the Angels | 284 |
Hazy Days in the Dordogne | 295 |
Patissiers Apprentice | 298 |
Black Perigord | 305 |
Finding My Religion | 315 |
A Taste for the Abyss | 320 |
Jos Dog Has His Day | 333 |
In the Land of the Musketeers | 63 |
Cinema en Plein Air | 77 |
Metro Metaphysics | 81 |
Three Women of Nice | 93 |
The Arch of Orange | 99 |
I Was Really Very Hungry | 108 |
Les Invalides | 120 |
The Cave Where It Lives | 129 |
SOME THINGS TO DO | 139 |
Road Scholars | 141 |
Loving the Middle Ages | 149 |
Bovary Country | 158 |
A Memory in Three Parts | 162 |
Carve Every Mountain | 169 |
Merlins Forest | 181 |
Footsteps of the Impressionists | 186 |
A Lovely Day for a Miracle | 192 |
The Hidden Ardeche | 207 |
Confessions in Fractured French | 218 |
The Loire on Wheels | 223 |
Stones of Carnac | 235 |
Barging with the Boys | 250 |
Dont Forget Marseille | 254 |
Pilgrims Path | 263 |
GOING YOUR OWN WAY | 275 |
Dining with the Corsican | 339 |
Encounters with Andre | 345 |
No Spitting in ChateauneufduPape | 356 |
The Edible City | 366 |
Riviera Gumshoe | 377 |
Two Moments In France | 391 |
IN THE SHADOWS | 399 |
The Duty to Remember the Need to Forget | 401 |
Service Non Compris | 416 |
White Night by StDenis | 420 |
Remnants of Hell | 433 |
THE LAST WORD | 449 |
Windows on a Village | 451 |
What You Need to Know | 457 |
Cultural Considerations | 465 |
Important Contacts | 470 |
Activities | 474 |
Additional Resources | 475 |
Recommended Reading | 477 |
Glossary | 480 |
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Acknowledgments | 486 |
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