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Karen Brown's France: Exceptional Places to Stay and Itineraries 2006 (Karen Brown's France Charming Inns and Itineraries)
by Karen Brown
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Eat, sleep, and drink France--enjoying lovely scenery and unusual sights. To satisfy any appetite, we have personally selected magnificent places to stay: elegant chateaux, cozy inns, refined manors and elegant small hotels. Take full advantage of this opportunity to live France every minute, twenty-four hours a day.
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Michelin Hautes-Pyrenees, Pyrenees-Atlantiques: Includes Plans for Pau, Biarritz Anglet Bayonne, Tarbes, Lourdes, San Sebastian, Pamplona...
by Michelin Travel Publications
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The Phantom Empire: Movies in the Mind of the Twentieth Century
by Geoffrey O'Brien
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O'Brien examines the cultural and psychological effects of movie-watching over the past 100 years, analyzing a variety of genres within the medium. Copyright 1995 Cahners business Information, Inc.
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Northern Spain: The Collected Traveler (An Inspired Anthology and Travel Resource)
by Barrie Kerper
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Each edition of this unique series marries a collection of previously published essays with detailed practical information, creating a colorful and deeply absorbing pastiche of opinions and advice. Each book is a valuable resource—a compass of sorts—pointing vacationers, business travelers, and readers in many directions. Going abroad with a Collected Traveler edition is like being accompanied by a group of savvy and observant friends who are intimately familiar with your destination.
This Edition on Northern Spain Features:
• Distinguished writers, such as Calvin Trillin, Penelope Casas, Tom Brokaw, Alistair Reid, Sally Schneider, Bruce Schoenfeld, Anya Von Bremzen, and Florence Fabricant, who share seductive insights into Northern Spain’s outstanding restaurants, unique landscape, and cultural treasures, including the Camino de Santiago; the Guggenheim Bilbao; the tapas bars and cafés of San Sebastián, a city where cuisine is taken
very seriously; the shrine of Covadonga, considered the birthplace of Spain; the wine-growing district of La Rioja; and the less-traveled routes through the mountains and
valleys of the Picos de Europa.
• Annotated bibliographies for each section with recommendations for related readings.
• An A–Z “informaciones prácticas” (practical information) section covering everything from accommodations, hiking, and museum tours to the significance of the horeo, Basque language and culture, local foods and drink, car rentals, airfares and airlines, travel insurance, and packing.
Whether it’s your first trip or your tenth, the Collected Traveler books are indispensable, and meant to be the first volumes you turn to when planning your journeys.
Also in the Collected Traveler series: Central Italy—Tuscany & Umbria, Paris, Provence, Morocco, Venice, and the forthcoming Southwestern France.
About The Author
BARRIE KERPER is an avid traveler and reader who has lived abroad. She previously worked for the travel book division of the original Banana Republic.
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Paris: The Collected Traveler: An Inspired Anthology and Travel Resource (The Collected Traveler)
by Barrie Kerper
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Each edition of this unique series marries a collection of previously published essays with detailed practical information, creating a colorful and deeply absorbing pastiche of opinions and advice. Each book is a valuable resource -- a compass of sorts -- pointing vacationers, business travelers, and readers in many directions. Going abroad with a Collected Traveler edition is like being accompanied by a group of savvy and observant friends who are intimately familiar with your destination.
This edition on Paris features:
Distinguished writers, such as Mavis Gallant, Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, Herbert Gold, Olivier Bernier, Richard Reeves, Patricia Wells, Catharine Reynolds, and Gerald Asher, who share seductive pieces about Parisian neighborhoods, personalities, the Luxembourg Gardens, Père-Lachaise and other monuments, restaurants and wine bars, le Plan de Paris, and le Beaujolais Nouveau.
Annotated bibliographies for each section with recommendations for related readings.
An A-Z "renseignements pratiques" (practical information) section covering everything from accommodations, marches aux puces (flea markets), and money to telephones, tipping, and the VAT.
Whether it's your first trip or your tenth, the Collected Traveler books are indispensable, and meant to be the first volumes you turn to when planning your journeys.
About The Author
BARRIE KERPER is an avid traveler and reader who has lived abroad and previously worked for the travel book division of the original Banana Republic. She is also the author of Central Italy -- Tuscany & Umbria and the forthcoming Provence.
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The End of Elsewhere: Travels Among the Tourists
by Taras Grescoe
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"Travel writers tend to seek out the world's ever-diminishing pockets of authenticity," Grescoe writes, announcing his perverse decision to "make a point of going exactly where the tourist ruts have been plowed the deepest," by following itineraries that have become generic—the pilgrimage to Santiago (he walks away from Santiago, in order to meet more tourists), sex tourism in Thailand (as a non-participant), the Michelin-guided motor tour of provincial France. En route, he taxonomizes such tourist types as the "budget travel snob," and provides a gloriously trivia-strewn history of tourism. A bus tour of Europe leads to a discussion of the life of Thomas Cook, whose temperance outings grew into the world's first travel agency, while modern European rail-pass tours recall the Grand Tours of the eighteenth century, this ostensible goal of cultural enrichment providing a front for "unsupervised sex and boisterous partying."
Copyright © 2005 The New Yorker
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?Essential reading.?
?Globe and Mail
?Sheila Copps would have done better to give every household west of Ottawa one of these with the $20 million she squandered on flags.?
?Edmonton Journal
?Read this entertaining book.?
?Enroute
?Sacré Blues forms a GenXer?s guide to Quebec, one that?s witty, well-researched and topical?If Grescoe?s book were put on school reading lists, we?d all be richer for it.?
?Toronto Star
?A terrific study of contemporary Quebec.?
?Vancouver Sun
?Entirely entertaining, insightfully chatty and often delicious?. a revealing, gloves-off journey.? ?Hour magazine
?A thorough, thoroughly entertaining Ski-Doo ride through [Quebec?s] economy, language, climate, and popular and spiritual culture?his is a book to be revisited.?
?Quill and Quire
?Grescoe know what it is to investigate a subject and nothing scares him: Sacré Blues unearths les differences in mores and morals, cuisine and language, immigration and ethnicity, economics and social policy?and much more with zest, precision and remarkable compactness. Grescoe is always interesting and accurate in his wide-angle descriptions of everything from the St-Trite rodeo to the corporate culture of Bombardier?Along the way, he catalogues everyone and everything of value that all of us ought to know about the culture of French Quebec at the beginning of the new century.?
?Globe and Mail
?Well-researched, well-written, funny in all the right places, opinionated and profound when it needs to be without pomposity, Grescoe?s book captures nicely a time-slice of what is truly a distinct society.?
?Halifax Daily News
?Reading his portrait of us, I thought to myself, Boy, I?m glad to live here! Why doesn?t everyone feel the way I do?For the reader little accustomed to what is going on here, a primer like Grescoe?s is exactly what?s needed.?
?Montréal Gazette
?Quebec is a nice place to visit, and you would want to live there?Explaining how foreign cultures go about being distinct is Taras Grescoe?s forte?imagine an extended edition of the Lonely Planet television series, with the hip host being a resident, and you have the flavour of this book?If being well-written and informative are sufficient virtues, it will do well.?
?National Post
?[Sacré Blues] is informed by his extensive travels throughout the province, by [Grescoe?s] keen and observant eye and by a genuine thoughtfulness. Respectful of Quebeckers, but also delighting in some of the cheesier aspects of pop culture, Grescoe sets out to avoid the usual political discourse and explore the fertile tensions which have given Quebec its cultural identity.?
?Ottawa Xpress
From the Hardcover edition.
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Nabokov: Novels 1969-74 (Library of America)
by Vladimir Nabokov
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The publication of this unprecedented three-volume set marks the first time the Library of America has offered works by a foreign-born author. Though a native of Russia, Nabokov easily could be considered an American by osmosis, since he wrote many of his major works while living on U.S. soil. This trilogy contains all his American fiction and nonfiction writings and incorporates the corrections the author added to his personal editions. This also contains scholarly notes and a chronology by leading Nabokov biographer Brian Boyd.
Copyright 1996 Reed business Information, Inc.
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ALL happy families are more or less dissimilar; all unhappy ones are more or less alike," says a great Russian writer in the beginning of a famous novel (Anna Arkadievitch Karenina, transfigured into English by R. G. Stonelower, Mount Tabor Ltd., 1880). Read the first page
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Monarch: The Life and Reign of Elizabeth II
by Robert Lacey
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As a child, Princess Elizabeth longed "to live in the country with lots of horses and dogs." That dream came to a crashing end when her uncle, King Edward VII, followed his heart instead of his head, giving up the throne for an American divorcee. The princess's fate was sealed: not only was she destined to become Queen of England, but as Lacey shows in this skillfully constructed biography, nearly every upheaval of her otherwise quiet and dutiful 50-year reign would be the direct consequence of impetuous relatives putting personal needs above royal responsibility. It's all here: the romantic debacles of Di, Fergie, Margaret, Ann, Charles and Andrew, as well as Prince Philip's unfailing ability to insert his foot in his mouth ("How nice to be in a country that is not ruled by its people," he said to Paraguayan dictator Alfredo Stroessner in 1969). Through it all, there have been two constants: the Queen is pragmatic and restrained, and the media is all over every mucky story. Lacey, veteran royal historian and biographer (The Queen Mother's Century, etc.), writes with the cooperation of the Palace, and his portrait is sympathetic, but he also offers an incisive analysis of the development of royal media coverage (which started with Queen Victoria and the invention of the camera) and the relationship between the two powerful entities, setting this apart from and far above the average by-the-numbers royal bio.
Copyright 2002 Cahners business Information, Inc.
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Although Lacey discusses Queen Elizabeth II's formative years and family life, his 16th book is not so much a biography as an examination of "the diminishing boundaries of [the royal family's] personal privacy" in the 20th century. Significant events, such as King George VI's death, Charles's and Andrew's doomed marriages, and the queen's financial status, are considered in light of how they are treated by the media and viewed by the public. Also highlighted are Mass-Observation, a volunteer organization used to measure the public's response to the royal family, and the intrusive tabloid press. Prince Charles cites the media's aggressive role in his rushed (and unfortunate) choice of a bride, and Lacey shows that Diana's own on-again, off-again relationship with the paparazzi served only to emphasize her insecurities. Plodding in parts, Lacey's work reveals little that is new about the queen, but it is a mature and thoughtful discussion of the public's evolving relationship with the British royal family. Recommended only for large public libraries with a special collection on the British monarchy. Isabel Coates, Canada Customs & Revenue Agency, Ont.
Copyright 2002 Cahners business Information, Inc.
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