Peter Mayle's Provence: Including 'A Year in Provence' and 'Toujours Provence'
Though organized from A to Z, this is hardly a conventional work of reference. It is rather a selection of those aspects of Provence that Peter Mayle, in almost 20 years there, has found to be the most interesting, curious, delicious, or down-right fun.
In more than 170 entries, he speaks about subjects as wide-ranging as architecture and zingue-zingue-zoun (in the local patois, a word meant to describe the sound of a violin), and as diverse as expatriates, Aix-en-Provence, the Provençal character, legends, lavender, linguistic oddities, the museum of the French Foreign Legion, the museum of the corkscrew, the origins of "La Marseillaise", and a bawdy folklore character named Fanny.
And, of course, he tells us about food and drink: vin rosé, truffles, olives, melons, bouillabaisse, the cheese that killed a Roman emperor, even a cure for indigestion.
Provence A-Z is a delight for Peter Mayle's ever-growing audience and the perfect complement to any guidebook on Provence, or, for that matter, France.
Country | USA |
Author | Peter Mayle |
Binding | Audible Audio Edition |
Format | Unabridged |
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Label | Books on Tape |
Manufacturer | Books on Tape |
PublicationDate | 2006-10-19 |
Publisher | Books on Tape |
Studio | Books on Tape |
ReleaseDate | 0000-00-00 |