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French Revolutions Cycling The Tour De France

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...

Something to Declare

Something to Declare

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

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...

The Stones of Balazuc

The Stones of Balazuc

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...

Babar's World Tour

Babar's World Tour

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...

Suite Francaise

Suite Francaise

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

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

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...

French Tales

French Tales

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)

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

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

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...

The Bayeux Tapestry

The Bayeux Tapestry

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

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...

The French

The French

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...

Continental Drifter

Continental Drifter

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

France: Traveller's Literary Companion

Author:John Edmondson
Publisher:In Print Publishing
Catalogue number:61305
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About this series
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...

Rambling on the Road to Rome

Rambling on the Road to Rome

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...

A Summer in Gascony

A Summer in Gascony

Author:Martin Calder
Publisher:Nicholas Brealey Publishing
Catalogue number:162812
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SIGNED COPIES!
“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...

A Year in Provence

A Year in Provence

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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Top 10 strange place names around the world

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