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Encore Provence : New Adventures in the South of France | ||
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by Peter Mayle Knopf Hardcover - 226 pages Click here for more information |
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Amazon.com "Provence, again?" one may think, seeing Peter Mayle's latest effort. "Has the man nothing better to do than promote a region that's already overhyped and overpriced? Can't he turn his eye to a place that needs a touristic boost, like Bulgaria?" However, there are reasons to plunge into the third Provençal book by Englishman Mayle, formerly a Madison Avenue copywriter whose bestselling A Year in Provence made the area a must-see for tourists and helped to quadruple real estate prices there.... | |||
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Patricia Wells at Home in Provence : Recipes Inspired by Her Farmhouse in France | ||
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by Patricia Wells, Robert Freson (Photographer) Scribner Hardcover Click here for more information |
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Amazon.com Tomato clafoutis, herb-cured filet of beef Carpaccio, garlic family soup, Catalan tuna daube: these and 171 other recipes pour off the pages of this sumptuous coffee-table cookbook by the author of Bistro Cooking and Simply French. Wells concentrates on coaxing the utmost flavor out of simple, fresh food, and her French recipes are not all swimming in cream, oils, and fats: the filet, for example, profits not from a heavy sauce but from being wrapped for two days in tarragon, parsley, basil,... | |||
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Colors of Provence | ||
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by Michel Biehn, et al Stewart Tabori & Chang Hardcover - 176 pages |
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Amazon.com Artists have long been attracted to Provence for the quality of the light and for the dramatic color; now Colors of Provence demonstrates just what Vincent Van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, and others found there. Divided into chapters entitled "Red," "Orange," "Yellow," "Green," "Blue," and "White, Black, & Gray," the book is a feast of photographs celebrating the vermillion walls of a small French village, the shades of green in a... | |||
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Eyewitness Travel Guide: Provence and the Cote D'azur | ||
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by Roger Williams, Deni Bown DK Publishing Paperback - 264 pages |
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The New York Times Each book is a visual as well as informational feast about a particular place. | |||
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Fodor's Provence and the Cote D'Azur (Fodor's Gold Guides) | ||
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by Nancy Coons Fodors Travel Pubns Paperback , 4th edition Click here for more information |
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The Most Beautiful Villages of Provence | ||
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by Michael Jacobs, Hugh Palmer (Photographer) Thames & Hudson Hardcover - 222 pages Click here for more information |
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Synopsis Hugh Palmer's stunning photographs and Michael Jacobs' evocative text illuminate the most beautiful villages of France's most beautiful province. Featuring a special listing of hotels, restaurants, festivals, and markets, this book celebrates a part of the world that has entranced millions. | |||
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Provence : A Country Almanac | ||
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by Louisa Jones Stewart Tabori & Chang Hardcover - 176 pages Click here for more information |
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Book Description No one knows Provence better than Louisa Jones. Not only has she lived there for nearly 30 years and written 8 books on the subject, she also designs private tours that explore the "Unknown Provence" and Provenal gardens. Originally published in 1993, Jones has completely reworked the entries in this updated version of the book. She has expanded her tour of Provence's lush gardens, exquisite wineries, local crafts, unique museums, fine hotels, and fabulous restaurants, and added 14 Provenal... | |||
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Provence (Touring in Wine Country Series) | ||
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by Hugh Johnson, Hubrecht Duijker Mitchell Beazley Paperback - 140 pages Click here for more information |
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Markets of Provence : A Culinary Tour of Southen France | ||
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by Dixon Long(Contributor), et al Collins Pub San Francisco Hardcover - 144 pages Click here for more information |
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Synopsis Markets of Provence tours the open-air food markets of seven French towns while exploring the role of the market in Provencal life and providing travelers with dozens of insider tips. The authors present information on regional and seasonal specialties, wines, and restaurants and picnic spots. A glossary of French phrases and shopping terms, plus a calendar of market days are included. 125 photos, many in color. 21 recipes. | |||
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LAZY DAYS OUT IN PROVENCE | ||
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by Dana Facaros, Michael Pauls (Contributor) Globe Pequot Pr Paperback Click here for more information |
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| Two Towns in Provence : Map of Another Town and a Considerable Town | |||
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by M. F. K. Kmary Fra Fisher(Photographer) Vintage Books Paperback - 208 pages , 1st vintag edition Click here for more information |
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Book Description "She is a national treasure." -- Jean Strouse, Newsweek Two Towns in Provence brings together M.F.K. Fisher's classic and unforgettable portraits of Aix-en-Provence and Marseille. Map of Another Town This memoir of the French provincial capital of Aix-en-Provence is, as the author tells us, "my picture, my map, of a place and therefore of myself...just as much of its reality is based on my own shadows, my inventions." A vibrant and perceptive profile of the kinship between a person and a place. A... | |||
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| A Year in Provence | |||
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by Peter Mayle, Judith Clancy (Illustrator) Vintage Books Paperback - 207 pages , Reprint edition Click here for more information |
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Amazon.com 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 Year in Provence, the chronicle of his own foray into Provençal domesticity. Beginning, appropriately enough, on New Year's... | |||
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| Provence; The Art of Living | |||
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by Sara Walden, et al Stewart, Tabori and Chang Hardcover - 207 pages Click here for more information |
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| The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh (Penguin Classics) | |||
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by Ronald De Leeuw(Editor), et al Penguin USA (Paper) Paperback - 560 pages , Reprint edition Click here for more information |
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Amazon.com This thorough collection of van Gogh's letters has been assembled with an artful eye and sensitivity to the artist's thinking. The result is an atypical take on Vincent van Gogh that avoids putting too much stress on his troubled mental state and too much straining by the editor to shape a narrative out of van Gogh's epistolary clues. Instead, we see the thoughtful and contemplative side of this creative genius, as well as his concern for the impact his art and life had on those people closest... | |||
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| Van Gogh's House : A Pop-Up Carousel | |||
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by John Leighton, Bob Hersey Universe Pub Hardcover - 32 pages , Pop-Up edition Click here for more information |
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Book Description Published on the occasion of the van Gogh exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., this fun-filled pop-up book opens into a four-room circular house showing the artist's home as he painted it, his friends as he protrayed them, and the world outside as he observed it.Van Gogh's House is full of surprises and interchangeable elements: the views from teh windows are classic van Gogh scenes, such as Harvest Landscape and Starry Night, and on the walls hang portraits,... | |||
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