A Year In Provence Toujours Provence

Author : Peter Mayle
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-19
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780307755490

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A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle Pdf

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.

Author : Peter Mayle
Publisher : Vintage Books
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1993-10-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0679749438

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A Year in Provence/Toujours Provence by Peter Mayle Pdf

A boxed set containing Mayle's best-selling A Year in Provence and Toujours Provence offers a colorful study of the people, landscapes, and life-styles of Provence. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Author : Peter Mayle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : British
ISBN : IND:30000029961483

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Toujours Provence by Peter Mayle Pdf

Author : Peter Mayle
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2000-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780140242669

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Encore Provence by Peter Mayle Pdf

ENCORE PROVENCE continues the account of an Englishman's life abroad. Among other curiosities, explore a school for noses in Haute Provence, the mysterious death of an oversexed butcher, the quest for the finest bouillabaisse and an assortment of the characters who lie in wait in bars and on boules courts. And, of course, the essential importance of lunch. BON APPETIT!

Author : Peter Mayle
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-26
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780451494535

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My Twenty-Five Years in Provence by Peter Mayle Pdf

From the moment Peter Mayle and his wife, Jennie, uprooted their lives in England and crossed the Channel permanently, they never looked back. Here the beloved author of A Year in Provence pays tribute to the most endearing and enduring aspects of his life in France—the charming and indelible parade of village life, the sheer beauty, the ancient history. He celebrates the café and lists some of his favorites; identifies his favorite villages, restaurants, and open-air markets; and recounts his most memorable meals. A celebration of twenty-five years of Provençal living—of lessons learned and changes observed—with his final book Mayle has crafted a lasting love letter to his adopted home, marked by his signature warmth, wit, and humor.

Author : Peter Mayle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : British
ISBN : WISC:89108011578

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A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle Pdf

A personal description of Provencal life as seen through the eyes of the author and his wife when they move into an old farmhouse at the foot of the Luberon mountains between Avignon and Aix.

Author : Peter Mayle
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2004-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781400042685

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A Good Year by Peter Mayle Pdf

A delightful, best-selling tale about the business and pleasure of wine, adapted into a Ridley Scott movie starring Russell Crowe and Marion Cotillard. Max Skinner has recently lost his job at a London financial firm and just as recently learned that he has inherited his late uncle’s vineyard in Provence. On arrival he finds the climate delicious, the food even better, and two of the locals ravishing. Unfortunately, the wine produced on his new property is swill. Why then are so many people interested in it? Enter a beguiling Californian who knows more about wine than Max does—and may have a better claim to the estate. Fizzy with intrigue, bursting with local color and savor, A Good Year is Peter Mayle, beloved author of A Year in Provence, at his most entertaining.

Author : Knopf Publishing Group
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0676808662

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Peter Mayle's Provence by Knopf Publishing Group Pdf

Author : Peter Mayle
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-23
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780307489852

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Provence A-Z by Peter Mayle Pdf

The ultimate “dictionary” for lovers of Provence: Peter Mayle's personal selection of the foods, customs and words he finds most fascinating, curious, delicious, or just plain fun. Though organized from A to Z, this is hardly a conventional work of reference. In more than 170 entries, Peter Mayle—bestselling author of A Year in Provence—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). 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. 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.

Author : Peter Mayle
Publisher : Lyle Stuart
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2000-12-01
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780818407963

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"Where Did I Come From?" by Peter Mayle Pdf

With over a million copies sold, this classic children's book has helped parents all over the world discuss the birds and the bees—without any nonsense. First published in 1973, Where Did I Come From? has helped generations of parents talk honestly with their children about the intimate world of human sexuality. Told in an age-appropriate voice respectful of young people's natural intelligence and lightheartedly illustrated throughout, Where Did I Come From? creates a safe space where families can learn about the traditional facts of life—from the different parts of the body to orgasm and birth. If you've been wondering how to have this talk with your children, look no further for a trusted resource that will give you the tools you need to share this critical information sensitively and factually. “I give this book top grades for humanness and honesty. Some parents will find that its humorousness helps them over the embarrassment.” —Dr. Spock

Author : Peter Mayle
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307791917

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Hotel Pastis by Peter Mayle Pdf

A beguiling novel of romance, adventure, and tongue-in-cheek suspense set in the South of France, from the beloved, best-selling author of A Year in Provence. Simon Shaw, a rumpled, fortyish English advertising executive, has decided to leave it all behind, and heads of to France to transform an abandoned police station in the Lubéron into a small but world-class hotel. On his side, Simon has a loyal majordomo and a French business partner who is as practical as she is ravishing. But he hasn’t counted on the malignant local journalist—or on the mauvaise types who have chosen the neighboring village as the site of their latest bank robbery. Slyly funny and overflowing with sensuous descriptions of the good life, Hotel Pastis is the literacy equivalent of a four-star restaurant.

Author : Peter Mayle,Gerard Auzet
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009-04-02
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780307494566

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Confessions of a French Baker by Peter Mayle,Gerard Auzet Pdf

Attention bread lovers!In the first of his famous books about Provence, Peter Mayle shared with us news of a bakery in the town of Cavaillon where the baking and appreciation of breads “had been elevated to the status of a minor religion.” Its name: Chez Auzet.Now, several hundred visits later, Mayle has joined forces with Gerard Auzet, the proprietor of this most glorious of Provençal bakeries, to tell us about breadmaking at its finest.Mayle takes us into the baking room to witness the birth of a loaf. We see the master at work–slapping, rolling, squeezing, folding, and twisting dough as he sculpts it into fougasses, bâtards, and boules. Auzet then gives us precise, beautifully illustrated instructions for making sixteen kinds of bread, from the classic baguette to loaves made with such ingredients as bacon, apricots, hazelnuts, garlic, and green and black olives. There are tips galore, the tricks of the trade are revealed, and along the way Mayle relates the delightful history of four generations of Auzet bakers. One of Provence’s oldest and most delicious pleasures is now available at a kitchen near you, thanks to this charming guide. Read, bake, and enjoy.

Author : Peter Mayle
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307791931

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Anything Considered by Peter Mayle Pdf

Bennett is an English expatriate living in France with a champagne taste and a beer bankroll. Happy-go-lucky and a bit roguish, he places an ad in the International Herald Tribune offering his services -- any services. He pursues a response from a wealthy Englishman named Julian Poe who has developed a means of producing truffles and is close to cornering the immensely lucrative truffle market. Bennett signs on and finds himself in Monaco, where he is able to live in a style to which he has always wished to become accustomed (including eating to his heart's content -- a Mayle trademark!). Soon the Sicilian and Corsican Mafiosi intrude and Bennett is joined by the beautiful and experienced (in all ways) Anna. Ham-fisted goons, gendarmes working at cross purposes, French village busybodies, and an order of monks dedicated to the god Bacchus all play a role in the surprising, and more than a little satisfying, denouement.

Author : Peter Mayle
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307958518

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The Marseille Caper by Peter Mayle Pdf

Lovable rogue and sleuth extraordinaire Sam Levitt is back in another beguiling, as-only-Peter-Mayle-can-write-it romp through the South of France. At the end of The Vintage Caper, Sam had just carried off a staggering feat of derring-do in the heart of Bordeaux, infiltrating the ranks of the French elite to rescue a stolen, priceless wine collection. With the questionable legality of the adventure—and the threat of some very powerful enemies!—Sam thought it’d be a while before he returned to France, especially with the charms of the beautiful Elena Morales to keep him in Los Angeles. But when the immensely wealthy Francis Reboul—the victim of Sam’s last heist but someone who knows talent when he sees it—asks our hero to take a job in Marseille, it’s impossible for Sam and Elena to resist the possibility of further excitement . . . to say nothing of the pleasures of the region. Soon the two are enjoying the coastal sunshine and the delectable food and wine for which Marseille is known. Yet as a competition over Marseille’s valuable waterfront grows more hotly disputed, Sam, representing Reboul, finds himself in the middle of an increasingly intrigue-ridden and dangerous real-estate grab, with thuggish gangsters on one side and sharklike developers on the other. Will Sam survive this caper unscathed? Will he live to enjoy another bowl of bouillabaisse? All will be revealed—with luck, savvy, and a lot of help from Sam’s friends—in the novel’s wonderfully satisfying climax.

Author : Peter Mayle
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780804173193

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The Diamond Caper by Peter Mayle Pdf

When a Riviera socialite’s diamonds are stolen—the latest in a string of seemingly unconnected but increasingly audacious jewelry heists across France—Peter Mayle’s bon vivant and master sleuth, Sam Levitt, and his partner, Elena Morales, are soon on the case. In these “perfect crimes,” Sam sees the hand of a master criminal, but as he and Elena dig deeper, they begin to realize just how dangerous it may be to pursue the truth. In the midst of all the excitement, there’s a house to renovate, rosé to share, and feasts of the Provençal summer bounty to enjoy—giving The Diamond Caper all the hallmarks of another delightfully sun-splashed Peter Mayle adventure.