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French Revolutions Cycling The Tour De France
| Author: | Tim Moore |
| Publisher: | Vintage |
| Catalogue number: | 107259 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
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 |
| Availability: | Special order: usually dispatched within 10 days |
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...
| Author: | John Merriman |
| Publisher: | W W Norton & Co |
| Catalogue number: | 111552 |
| Availability: | Special order: usually dispatched within 10 days |
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...
Aveyron, A Bridge To French Arcadia
| Author: | Thirza Vallois |
| Publisher: | Iliad Books |
| Catalogue number: | 164761 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
“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...
Deep France: A Writer's Year in the Bearn
| Author: | Celia Brayfield |
| Publisher: | Pan Books |
| Catalogue number: | 122189 |
| Availability: | Temporarily out of stock: expected back within 10 days |
What do you do when your daughter tells you it's time to leave the nest? Throw the computer into the back of the car, pack your bags and move your entire household, including your cats, to France, naturally...
| Author: | Peter Mayle |
| Publisher: | Penguin |
| Catalogue number: | 89288 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
After his year in Provence, “Encore Provence” finds Peter Mayle back in Provence, after pining away in America for the sights, sounds and smells of his beloved French home. Completing his trilogy on...
| Author: | Helen Constantine |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Catalogue number: | 168028 |
| Availability: | Temporarily out of stock: expected back within 10 days |
Helen Constantine's 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...
| Author: | Antony Beevor |
| Publisher: | Penguin |
| Catalogue number: | 176900 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
Making use of overlooked and new material from over thirty archives in half a dozen countries, D-Day is the most vivid and well-researched account yet of the battle of Normandy. As with Stalingrad and...
Instructions for British Servicemen in France (1944)
| Series: | Instructions for Servicemen (Historical Reproductions) |
| Publisher: | Bodleian Library |
| Catalogue number: | 142825 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
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...
| Author: | Graham Robb |
| Publisher: | Picador |
| Catalogue number: | 166433 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
Graham Robb’s “The Discovery of France” is a book of genuine interest, continually redefining what we thought we knew about the history of France, with an assured, analytical, good-humoured and sympathetic...
| Author: | Lucy Wadham |
| Publisher: | Faber and Faber |
| Catalogue number: | 178769 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
The Secret Life of France by Lucy Wadham’s is a candid and funny account of her long and tumultuous love affair with France, her adoptive land. At the age of eighteen Wadham ran away from English boys...
The Story of French - The Language that Travelled the World
| Author: | Jean-Benoit Nadeau |
| Publisher: | Portico |
| Catalogue number: | 165250 |
| Availability: | Temporarily out of stock email, weborders@stanfords.co.uk |
“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...
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| Author: | Theodore Zeldin |
| Publisher: | Harvill Press |
| Catalogue number: | 58257 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
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...
An Englishman Amoureux: Love in Deepest France
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Catalogue number: | 170741 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
After the romantic encounter in the Loire Valley bathroom at the end of An Englishman a la Campagne, Michael Sadler dumps the University of Swindon and returns to France intent on winning the heart...
| Author: | Tim Moore |
| Publisher: | Abacus |
| Catalogue number: | 105838 |
| Availability: | Temporarily out of stock: expected back within 10 days |
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...
| Author: | Peter Francis Browne |
| Publisher: | Summersdale Publishers |
| Catalogue number: | 100339 |
| Availability: | Temporarily out of stock: expected back within 10 days |
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: | Charlie Connelly |
| Publisher: | Adlard Coles Nautical |
| Catalogue number: | 54457 |
| Availability: | Temporarily out of stock: expected back within 10 days |
“Watersteps Through France” is a look at France through the eyes of two seasoned travellers as they make their way through the country’s canals and rivers, ready to take a fresh view of the unexpected...
| Author: | Peter Mayle |
| Publisher: | Penguin |
| Catalogue number: | 89289 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle 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.
Mayle...
| Author: | Rupert Wright |
| Publisher: | Ebury Press |
| Catalogue number: | 133766 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
An introduction to what was France's last undiscovered Mediterranean secret - the Languedoc. This is a guide to the Languedoc composed of letters the author - Rupert Wright - sent home to relatives...
| Author: | Nicholas Woodsworth |
| Publisher: | Haus Publishers Ltd |
| Catalogue number: | 167994 |
| Availability: | Temporarily out of stock: expected back within 2 weeks |
A region steeped in fable and myth, Provence can accurately be called one of the cultural crossroads of European history. A source of inspiration to artists, poets and troubadours it is also an enviable...
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Following a recent store promotion involving prominent map and book publishers Michelin, and the antics of a certain member of staff who (rather enthusiastically) volunteered to brave the streets of London dressed as the ‘Michelin man’ (or ‘Bibendum’ as he is known in his native France), we at Stanfords decided to look into the story behind this iconic character…and came across some surprising facts in the process!
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Read moreFrance - Côtes-d’Armor, Brittany
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Read moreIGN 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 of the army. It became a public institution just before the Armistice of Vichy in 1941.
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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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