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French Revolutions Cycling The Tour De France
| Author: | Tim Moore |
| Publisher: | Vintage |
| Catalogue number: | 107259 |
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Self-confessed loafer Tim Moore, seduced by the speed and glamour of the biggest annual sporting event in the world, sets out to cycle the course of le Tour de France. All 3,630km of it.
Battling it...
| Author: | Julian Barnes |
| Publisher: | Picador |
| Catalogue number: | 103933 |
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In this latest collecton of essays, culled from a period of over 20 years, his affection for his chosen second country is tangible. Honest, emotive pieces attest to his appreciation of the "Land Without...
The Elusive Truffle: Travels in Search of the Legendary Food of France
| Author: | Mirabel Osler |
| Publisher: | Black Swan |
| Catalogue number: | 85664 |
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An illustrated travel narrative and cookery book, Mirabel Osler goes in search of the traditional food of France and comes back with a collection of recipes and a mountain of information about suppliers...
| Author: | John Merriman |
| Publisher: | W W Norton & Co |
| Catalogue number: | 111552 |
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If you look at Michelin sheet 80, in the north east corner, you will find Balazuc, a tiny medieval village carved from a limestone cliff that towers over the Ardeche river.
This is where the American...
| Author: | Laurent De Brunhoff |
| Publisher: | Harry N Abrams |
| Catalogue number: | 136173 |
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The latest from venerable storyteller and brilliant artist Laurent de Brunhoff has Babar's family on a world tour! They visit a number of countries around the globe.
First stop is Italy where they learn...
| Author: | Irene Nemirovsky |
| Publisher: | Vintage |
| Catalogue number: | 155018 |
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“Suite Francaise” is one of the few books where the term ‘lost classic’ is genuinely applicable, a book so surrounded by the circumstances of its publication, that the wonderful text itself is all the...
The Barefoot Book of Fairy Tales
| Author: | Malachy Doyle |
| Publisher: | Harry N Abrams |
| Catalogue number: | 136360 |
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Follow a journey to magical and memorable lands with this anthology of classic fairy tales from cultures around the world.
This marvellous collection includes twelve popular and lesser-known fairy tales...
Aveyron, A Bridge To French Arcadia
| Author: | Thirza Vallois |
| Publisher: | Iliad Books |
| Catalogue number: | 164761 |
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“Aveyron, A Bridge to French Arcadia” is the captivating story of a once destitute corner of France that is now singled out for its idyllic quality of life.
“It all began [in Paris] with a riot of wisteria...
| Author: | Helen Constantine |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Catalogue number: | 168028 |
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French Tales is a collection of twenty-two translated stories associated with the twenty-two regions of France. The book, which includes both well-known and little-known writers, for example Prosper...
Instructions for British Servicemen in France (1944)
| Series: | Instructions for Servicemen (Historical Reproductions) |
| Publisher: | Bodleian Library |
| Catalogue number: | 142825 |
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In 1944 the British War Office distributed a handbook to British soldiers informing them what to expect and how to behave in a newly-liberated France. Containing candid descriptions of this war-ravaged...
Pick your brains about... France
| Publisher: | Cadogan Guides |
| Catalogue number: | 124757 |
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This book is packed with fascinating facts and stories from France; its people and their way of life, food, customs, shops, language, history, famous people, sport, landmarks, spectacular sights and...
The Basque History of the World
| Author: | Mark Kurlansky |
| Publisher: | Vintage |
| Catalogue number: | 93141 |
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The author considers the possibility that the Basques may be one of the oldest people in Europe. Whether or not this is so there is no doubt that the region has always been strongly independent. In...
| Author: | Carola Hicks |
| Publisher: | Vintage |
| Catalogue number: | 154528 |
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Carola Hicks’ “The Bayeux Tapestry - The Life Story of a Masterpiece” opens up the intrigue, mystery and drama of the tapestry’s history, in a fine piece of historical enquiry, and shows how - as with...
The Story of French - The Language that Travelled the World
| Author: | Jean-Benoit Nadeau |
| Publisher: | Portico |
| Catalogue number: | 165250 |
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“The Story of French” is a fascinating exploration of the historical and cultural development of the French language.
Spanning sixteen centuries, the book tells how this complex, resilient and influential...
| Author: | Theodore Zeldin |
| Publisher: | Harvill Press |
| Catalogue number: | 58257 |
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It is hard to describe Theodore Zeldin, he his at once a historian, a psychoanalyst and a sociologist. He is concerned less with facts and more of human emotions / "He opens up before us a marvellouly...
| Author: | Tim Moore |
| Publisher: | Abacus |
| Catalogue number: | 105838 |
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Financed by a bet with a Yeovil linen draper, court jester Thomas Coryate's 1608 journey to Venice and back was an unlikely template for the Grand Tour.
Almost four hundred years later, Tim Moore put...
France: Traveller's Literary Companion
| Author: | John Edmondson |
| Publisher: | In Print Publishing |
| Catalogue number: | 61305 |
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Poems, prose extracts, plot summaries and biographical notes form the substance of these wide-ranging literary anthologies. Each title is a splendid introduction to the literature...
| Author: | Peter Francis Browne |
| Publisher: | Summersdale Publishers |
| Catalogue number: | 100339 |
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Almost 100 years later, Browne follows in Hilaire Belloc's footsteps, as recounted in A Path to Rome, and walks from Toul in France to the Italian capital, encountering as many changes as similarities...
| Author: | Martin Calder |
| Publisher: | Nicholas Brealey Publishing |
| Catalogue number: | 162812 |
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“A Summer in Gascony” is a tale of two love affairs: an idyllic summer romance with blonde-haired Anja and a lifelong love affair with Gascony with its village festivals, dusty roads...
| Author: | Peter Mayle |
| Publisher: | Penguin |
| Catalogue number: | 89289 |
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“A Year In Provence” is a much-loved book, a perfect example of both a wonderful read and also the kind of travel writing that will get you rearing to go and see it for yourself.
Peter Mayle and his...
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With our hemisphere spinning inexorably into winter, it was time to 'fill the boots'. Having overspent the month already, a cheap local destination seemed prudent, with a chance to test a friends theory that often what is searched for far away can be found in the local. Thus the much unpublicised two-day coastal flanner from Calais to Bologne seemed ideal.
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France - Côtes-d’Armor, Brittany
Our cycling trip began with an overnight ferry from Portsmouth to St Malo, and after this sleepy start, we began in earnest - cycling off the ferry onto French soil where we'd spend the following week pedalling past the beautiful coastline, canals and villages of north-east Britanny.
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France - Le Touquet Paris-Plage
Last summer six cousins and I squeezed into a large estate car with all our camping gear and spent a few days pottering down the coast of northern France. We stayed at the many well-appointed campsites along the way. We spent the mornings devouring large numbers of patisserie, the days on the beach and the evenings cooking moules marinière over the campfire...
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“It’s just a floating caravan!” That was my wife’s first unhappy reaction to the sight of Beauregard, the French canal boat that we were about to spend the next seven days living on. In our family the holiday from hell has always been to endure the discomforts of camping or caravanning – why do people voluntarily make do with less than the comforts of home? So I could tell as we were shown around the compact layout of Beauregard by the local boat technician that my wife’s sunny vision of the next seven days was rapidly clouding over.
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France - Toulouse to les Pyrénées
I gathered my seven words of French, my French dictionary, my maps and guidebooks - like every good journey this one started at the shelves of Stanfords - and set off for the forgotten southern corner of France.
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IGN is France's national survey agency, the equivalent of Great Britain's Ordnance Survey. As the Ordnance Survey was, and as many national Géographical institutes still are, it was originally a department...
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Michelin: the maps they are a-changing
New maps are always awaited with great anticipation at Stanfords; many become a valuable addition to our stock, and those which fill the few remaining gaps in our coverage are particularly welcomed...
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Justin Saunders decided that adding a couple of extra miles on the commute for a better life would be worth the effort...although this commute was to be from France. Here he describes the experience of buying and living in France and whether it has met his expectations.
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Stanfords supports coast-to-coast trek
An intrepid businessman trekked from coast to coast of France to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support. Mike Heyes, a senior consultant from Cheshire, set off on 11 July from Hendaye, a small French...
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Top 10 strange place names around the world
There are some unusual, attractive and just plain funny names of countries, islands, towns and even glaciers all round the world. Here are our favourites…
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