Walking In France

Author : Bruce LeFavour
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780966344806
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book France on Foot written by Bruce LeFavour and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is possible to walk from any village in France to another without ever boarding a car, train, or bus. This is a guide to the more than 110,000 miles of well-marked and maintained off-road footpaths and to the gracious accommodations, wonderful restaurants, and sights along the way. Vineyards, caves, chateaux, and other beauties of the countryside are highlighted in colour photos. The book provides explanations of trail markers, equipment advice, packing tips, and a pocket-sized English-French walker's vocabulary.

Author : Rory Moulton
Publisher : Rory Moulton
ISBN 13 : 1954778066
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hiking France written by Rory Moulton and published by Rory Moulton. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ditch the tourist trail, hit the hiking trail and experience the REAL France! Ever felt the urge to shoulder a backpack and explore fairytale villages? Do your travel daydreams involve eating picnic lunches beside lavender fields? And feasting on freshly prepared classic French dinners? Have you dreamed of hiking in France among vineyards and stone villages, enjoying the leisurely pace of rural life at the languid pace of foot travel? You’ve come to the right place. Anyone can walk France’s long-distance hiking trails. - Hiking takes all types. Hiking France covers the intricacies of walking from village to village, along lavender fields, farm pastures, riverside towpaths and mellow forest trails. Anyone in decent shape can hike France’s best trails. - You don’t need to know French. Some French phrases help, but with modern translation apps and an adventurous spirit, English speakers get on fine in rural France. - You don’t need a trust fund. Hiking rural France is one of Western Europe’s great bargains, and the most-affordable way to explore the French countryside. - You needn’t have planned an overseas hiking trip before. Hiking France will arm you with all the tools, resources and inspiration to set you on the path of planning your dream hiking trip in France. In Hiking France, you’ll learn: - How to find villages linked by well-signed footpaths. - Where to buy and how to decipher French maps and hiking guides. - Which websites, books and apps to use. - How to book lodging and transportation. - What to pack and wear. - Eating tips and tricks for dining like a local (and a hiker!). After reading Hiking France, you’ll have the knowledge and wherewithal to go out and plan your self-sustained hiking trip to France. You won’t need expensive tour companies or private guides. Just this book, maps or GPS, and a sense of adventure. There’s never been a better time to ditch Europe’s tourist crowds and strike out on a village hiking vacation in France, Europe’s ultimate hiking playground.

Author : Graham Robb
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 039306882X
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography written by Graham Robb and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2008-10-17 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A witty, engaging narrative style…[Robb's] approach is particularly engrossing." —New York Times Book Review A narrative of exploration—full of strange landscapes and even stranger inhabitants—that explains the enduring fascination of France. While Gustave Eiffel was changing the skyline of Paris, large parts of France were still terra incognita. Even in the age of railways and newspapers, France was a land of ancient tribal divisions, prehistoric communication networks, and pre-Christian beliefs. French itself was a minority language. Graham Robb describes that unknown world in arresting narrative detail. He recounts the epic journeys of mapmakers, scientists, soldiers, administrators, and intrepid tourists, of itinerant workers, pilgrims, and herdsmen with their millions of migratory domestic animals. We learn how France was explored, charted, and colonized, and how the imperial influence of Paris was gradually extended throughout a kingdom of isolated towns and villages. The Discovery of France explains how the modern nation came to be and how poorly understood that nation still is today. Above all, it shows how much of France—past and present—remains to be discovered. A New York Times Notable Book, Publishers Weekly Best Book, Slate Best Book, and Booklist Editor's Choice.

Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher : Cosimo Classics
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by Cosimo Classics. This book was released on 1879 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 23 September 1878 Stevenson set out from Le Monastier in the Haut Loire, to tramp through the wild region of the Cevennes. His only companion was a small donkey to carry basic necessities, and a commodious "sleeping sack". In the next 12 days, at a pace dictated by the donkey and carrying most of the supplies himself, he travelled 120 miles across rivers, mountains and forests. His stylish and witty account was published in 1879.

Author : Ezra Pound
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811212236
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Walking Tour in Southern France written by Ezra Pound and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1992 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rummaging through his papers in 1958, Ezra Pound came across a cache of notebooks dating back to the summer of 1912, when as a young man he had walked the troubadour landscape of southern France. Pound had been fascinated with the poetry of medieval Provence since his college days. His experiments with the complex lyric forms of Arnaut Daniel, Bertran de Born, and others were included in his earliest books of poems; his scholarly pursuits in the field found their way into The Spirit of Romance (1910); and the troubadour mystique was to become a resonant motif of the Cantos. In the course of transcribing and emending the text of "Walking Tour 1912", editor Richard Sieburth retraced Pound's footsteps along the roads to the troubadour castles. "What this peripatetic editing process...revealed", he writes, "was a remarkably readable account of a journey in search of the vanished voices of Provence that at the same time chronicled Pound's gradual discovery of himself as a modernist poet...".

Author : Gillian Souter
Publisher : Interlink Publishing Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Walking in France written by Gillian Souter and published by Interlink Publishing Group. This book was released on 2006 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When and where to look out for people with guns during hunting season. The authors take good advantage of France's extensive network of walking clubs and walking facilities. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Author : Patrick Leigh Fermor
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590175174
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Time of Gifts written by Patrick Leigh Fermor and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2011-09-14 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beloved account about an intrepid young Englishman on the first leg of his walk from London to Constantinople is simply one of the best works of travel literature ever written. At the age of eighteen, Patrick Leigh Fermor set off from the heart of London on an epic journey—to walk to Constantinople. A Time of Gifts is the rich account of his adventures as far as Hungary, after which Between the Woods and the Water continues the story to the Iron Gates that divide the Carpathian and Balkan mountains. Acclaimed for its sweep and intelligence, Leigh Fermor’s book explores a remarkable moment in time. Hitler has just come to power but war is still ahead, as he walks through a Europe soon to be forever changed—through the Lowlands to Mitteleuropa, to Teutonic and Slav heartlands, through the baroque remains of the Holy Roman Empire; up the Rhine, and down to the Danube. At once a memoir of coming-of-age, an account of a journey, and a dazzling exposition of the English language, A Time of Gifts is also a portrait of a continent already showing ominous signs of the holocaust to come.

Author : Sylvain Tesson
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452967482
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On the Wandering Paths written by Sylvain Tesson and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2022-08-02 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A walking journey through France’s vast interior becomes a meditation on both personal recovery and the role of history in the present—more than 425,000 copies sold in France After a free-climbing accident lands him in a coma and a hospital for four months, the French writer Sylvain Tesson makes a promise to himself: if he’s ever able to walk again, he will traverse the entire country of France on foot. Part literary adventure, part philosophical reflection on our contemporary consumer culture, On the Wandering Paths takes us deep into the heart of what Tesson terms France’s “hyperrural” zones. Tracing the obscure paths peasants once followed throughout the countryside, Tesson embarks on a three-month journey of solitude and personal contemplation as he walks along vast stretches of mountain ranges and rivers, encountering ancient Roman stone bridges and walkways, the French Foreign Legion, pagan prayer sites, Provençal villages, and the majestic Mont-Saint-Michel. Connecting deeply with the places he visits, his experiences inspire reflection on the essential need to disengage from the digital and immerse oneself in natural beauty. Rich with humor, historical insight, and literary power, On the Wandering Paths is both a meditation on the act of recovery and a potent recognition of the traces of our past in the present. Asking us to reassess our values and our relationship to the land, Tesson’s exquisite chronicle through landscapes that continue to resist urbanization and technology is a thoughtful—and thought-provoking—glimpse into a poet’s adventurous life. Les Chemins de Pierre, a film based on the book starring Jean Dujardin, is due to release in 2022.

Author : Mireille Guiliano
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1400044804
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book French Women Don't Get Fat written by Mireille Guiliano and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2004-12-28 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The book that launched a French Revolution about how to approach healthy living: the ultimate non-diet book—now with more recipes. “The perfect book.... A blueprint for building a healthy attitude toward food and exercise"—San Francisco Chronicle French women don’t get fat, even though they enjoy bread and pastry, wine, and regular three-course meals. Unlocking the simple secrets of this “French paradox”—how they enjoy food while staying slim and healthy—Mireille Guiliano gives us a charming, inspiring take on health and eating for our times. For anyone who has slipped out of her Zone, missed the flight to South Beach, or accidentally let a carb pass her lips, here is a positive way to stay trim, a culture’s most precious secrets recast for the twenty-first century. A life of wine, bread—even chocolate—without girth or guilt? Pourquoi pas?

Author : Miles Morland
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Walk Across France written by Miles Morland and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At age 45, Miles Morland left his high-paying job at the London office of a Wall Street firm to walk, with his wife, across France. Morland's memoir of his and his wife's journey is the irresistible story of an adventure, a marriage, and a dream come true. "For anyone who ever fantasized about walking away from the rat race".--Publishers Weekly