Provence A-Z Peter Mayle

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Peter Mayle - «Provence A-Z»

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An indispensable, richly informative, and always entertaining sourcebook on Provence by the writer who has made the region his own.

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 twenty years there has found to be the most interesting, curious, delicious, or down-right fun.

In more than 170 entries he writes 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), as diverse as expatriates, Aix-en-Provence, the ProvenA§al 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 writes about food and drink: vin rosA©, truffles, olives, melons, bouillabaisse, the cheese that killed a Roman emperor, even a cure for indigestion. The wonderful accompanying artwork includes curiosities Mayle has gathered over the yearsmatchbooks, drawings, century-old ads, photos, tourist brochures, maps.

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. Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Provence A-Z (Peter Mayle)

Полное название книги Peter Mayle Provence A-Z
Автор Peter Mayle
Ключевые слова фотография
Категории Искусство и культура, Художественная фотография
ISBN 1400044421
Издательство
Год 2006
Название транслитом provence-a-z-peter-mayle
Название с ошибочной раскладкой provence a-z peter mayle