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A Year in Provence

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More than 40,000 listeners have enjoyed this story on cassette. Now anyone who’s ever dreamed of getting away from it all can enjoy the charms and challenges of A Year in Provence on CD
Peter Mayle and his wife had been to Provence as tourists. They had dreamed of one day tradContinue

More than 40,000 listeners have enjoyed this story on cassette. Now anyone who’s ever dreamed of getting away from it all can enjoy the charms and challenges of A Year in Provence on CD
Peter Mayle and his wife had been to Provence as tourists. They had dreamed of one day trading the long, gray winters and damp summers of England for the blue skies and sunshine of the coast of southern France. And then they made it happen.
They moved into an old farmhouse at the foot of the Luberon mountains and embarked on a wonderful, if at times bewildering, new life. Among their experiences that first year: being inundated with builders and visitors, grappling with the native accent, taking part in goat races and supervising the planting of a new vineyard.
Peter Mayle personally recounts the pleasures and frustrations of Provençal life—sharing in a way no one else can, the unique and endearing culture that is Provence.
A Year in Provence was a New York Times bestseller for three years and won the British Book Awards’ “Best Travel Book of the Year.”

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  • A wonderful year, spent in a place that offers good wine and tasty food is what everybody would have at least once in life. For each month passing you could find several habits, recipes and moods from the part of France that probably is closest to Italy. After reading this book you'll try to leave y ... (continue)

    A wonderful year, spent in a place that offers good wine and tasty food is what everybody would have at least once in life. For each month passing you could find several habits, recipes and moods from the part of France that probably is closest to Italy. After reading this book you'll try to leave your country if it hasn't food&wine traditions (or you'll apreciate your spanish or italian origins if you have them).
    People from Provence, in this book, are rough but kind, easy but troubled but know hot to enjoy life.

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    etnagigante said on Nov 11, 2011 about the Others edition | Add your feedback

  • the perfect book read by the pool in a tropical resort, also the book that lured me into visiting Pr

    the perfect book read by the pool in a tropical resort, also the book that lured me into visiting Provence 5 years ago

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    James Chen said on Jan 6, 2008 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

  • Quite good

    Funny and light... It actually made me laugh out loud. Great descriptions on food... A little window onto French Village life...

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    ahka said on Aug 9, 2007 about the Paperback edition | 1 feedback

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