A Year in Provence

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Jun 4, 1991 - Travel - 224 pages

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this witty and warm-hearted account, Peter Mayle tells what it is like to realize a long-cherished dream and actually move into a 200-year-old stone farmhouse in the remote country of the Lubéron with his wife and two large dogs.

He endures January's frosty mistral as it comes howling down the Rhône Valley, discovers the secrets of goat racing through the middle of town, and delights in the glorious regional cuisine. A Year in Provence transports us into all the earthy pleasures of Provençal life and lets us live vicariously at a tempo governed by seasons, not by days.

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Contents

JANUARY
3
FEBRUARY
24
MARCH
43
Copyright

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About the author (1991)

Peter Mayle is the author of fifteen books, nine of them novels, including the beloved bestseller A Year in Provence. A recipient of the Légion d’Honneur from the French government for his cultural contributions, he lived in Provence with his wife, Jennie, for more than twenty-five years. Mayle died in 2018.

Bibliographic information

TitleA Year in Provence
Vintage Departures
AuthorPeter Mayle
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1991
ISBN0679731148, 9780679731146
Length224 pages
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Humor / Topic / Travel
Travel / Essays & Travelogues
Travel / Europe / France
  
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