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Provence A-Z

by: Peter Mayle

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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 944.9
EAN: 9781400044429
ISBN: 1400044421
Label: Knopf
Manufacturer: Knopf
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: October 31, 2006
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date: October 31, 2006
Sales Rank: 97798
Studio: Knopf



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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 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 writes about food and drink: vin rosé, 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 years—matchbooks, 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.





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Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - The Fantasy and Reality of Provence
Peter Mayle's "Provence A-Z" is a collection of personal interests and discoveries. There are amusing ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Peeter Mayle
Peter Mayle's books about Provence are always wonderful, and this one does not disappoint!
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Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - "Provence4: A to Z
This is a collection of short essays about the culture of Provence in alphabetical order. I think it is typical ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - A great book to learn about Provence
An enjoyable collection about things in and of provence. Peter Mayle has done another winner.
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Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - A 'Dictionary' Full of Love
Here's a book of a couple of hundred entries, from A to Z of course, about life in the Provence region of France. ... Read More

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