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The Rough Guide to Corsica
Rough Guides 2009; US$ 19.99The Rough Guide to Corsica is the ultimate travel guide with clear maps and detailed coverage of all the best attractions Corsica has to offer. Discover the vibrant regions of Corsica from the beautiful island beaches of Corsica, to the amazing GR20 trail and scenic walks through this lush Mediterranean island. New full-colour features explore the... more...
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres
Penguin Group US 1986; US$ 17.00Mont Saint Michel and Chartres is a record not of a literal jouney but of a meditative journey across time and space into the medieval imagination. Using the architecture, sculpture, and stained glass of the two locales as a starting point, Adams breathes life into what others might see merely as monuments of a past civilization. With daring and... more...
Robert `Curthose', Duke of Normandy [c.1050-1134]
Boydell & Brewer 2008; US$ 99.00New biography of Robert 'Curthose', eldest son of William the Conqueror, whose failure to secure the kingdom of England has overshadowed his role in the success of the First Crusade in capturing Jerusalem. more...
Adventure Guide to Provence & the Cote d'Azur
Hunter Publishing 2005; US$ 15.00Here is the most detailed and informative guide to this fascinating region, from the Côte d?Azur and its seaside towns of St. Tropez, Cannes, Nice and Antibes, to the mountainous regions of Vaucluse, the Lubéron and Mont Ventoux. See the papal palaces and cathedrals massed inside Avignon?s intact 14th-century walls. Or visit Nîmes, with its Amphitheater,... more...
Lunch in Paris
Little, Brown and Company 2010; US$ 10.99In Paris for a weekend visit, Elizabeth Bard sat down to lunch with a handsome Frenchman--and never went home again. Was it love at first sight? Or was it the way her knife slid effortlessly through her pavé au poivre, the steak's pink juices puddling into the buttery pepper sauce? LUNCH IN PARIS is a memoir about a young American woman caught... more...
Lunch in Paris
Summersdale Publishers Ltd. 2011; US$ 11.99This is amazing, I said. You have to give me the recipe.There is no recipe, he said, smiling. I use whatever I have. It never tastes the same way twice.I had no way of knowing, that first damp evening in Paris, how this man, and his non-recipes, would change my life.Has a meal ever changed your life?Part... more...
The Most Beautiful Walk in the World
Short Books 2012; US$ 13.11Paris is a pedestrian?s city ? each block a revelation, every neighbourhood a new feast for the senses, a place rich with history and romance at every turn. In this enchanting memoir, acclaimed author and Paris resident John Baxter sets off on the trail of Paris's legendary artists and writers. Along the way, he tells the city?s story, introducing... more...
We'll Always Have Paris
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 11.99For more than a century, pilgrims from all over the world seeking romance and passion have made their way to the City of Light. The seductive lure of Paris has long been irresistible to lovers, artists, epicureans, and connoisseurs of the good life. Globe-trotting film critic and writer John Baxter heard her siren song and was bewitched. Now he offers... more...
Merowinger und Karolinger
WBG - Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 2012; US$ 13.04Hauptbeschreibung Das Frankenreich unter den Merowingern und Karolingern, auf ehemals römischem Territorium entstanden, wuchs in die Rolle der dominierenden Macht im westlichen Europa hinein. Dabei entwickelte es Strukturen, die beispielhaft für benachbarte Regionen werden sollten. Ohne das Vorbild des Frankenreiches wären viele Entwicklungen im... more...
The Mini Rough Guide to Paris
Rough Guides 2011; US$ 12.99The Mini Rough Guide to Paris is your perfect companion to Europe?s most visited and romantic capital. The full-colour section introduces Paris' highlights, with incisive accounts of all the top sights from the Eiffel Tower to the Marais quarter. You?ll find updated accounts of all the key attractions, expert reviews of the best hotels and restaurants,... more...









