Cultural Region/French
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The Independent Guide to Disneyland Paris 2023
$19.99 Add to cartPlease note a new edition of this book is now available – please search for The Independent Guide to Disneyland Paris 2024.
Prepare for your trip to Disneyland Paris with our fully updated guide for 20
- Author: Costa, G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: April 08 2023
- ISBN10: 1838277390
- Language: English
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Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error
$37.95 Add to cartWith a new introduction by author Le Roy Ladurie, this special paperback edition offers a fascinating history of a fourteenth-century village, Montaillou, in the mountainous region of southern France,… [more below]
- Author: Le Roy Ladurie, Emmanuel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 410
- Publish Date: October 29 2008
- ISBN10: 0807616133
- Language: English
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French Made Simple
$20.00 Add to cartFrench Made Simple will help you learn to speak French quickly and easily
An invaluable introduction to one of the most studied languages, French Made Simple is ideal for students, business professi- Series: Made Simple
- Author: Haze, Pamela Rose
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0767918592
- Language: English
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Land and Wine: The French Terroir
$23.00 Add to cartA tour of the French winemaking regions to illustrate how the soil, underlying bedrock, relief, and microclimate shape the personality of a wine.
For centuries, France has long been the world’s great- Author: Frankel, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: November 26 2021
- ISBN10: 0226816729
- Language: English
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A Woman’s Battles and Transformations
$16.00 Add to cartA Woman’s Battles and Transformations is a portrait of the author’s mother by the acclaimed writer of the international bestsellers The End of Eddy and History of Violence.
One day, ﾉdouard Louis fi- Author: Louis, Édouard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1250872154
- Language: English
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Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996
$22.00 Read moreAs selected by the author, Opened Ground includes the essential work from Heaney’s twelve previous books of poetry, as well as new sequences drawn from two of his landmark translations, The Cure at Tr
- Author: Heaney, Seamus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 25 1999
- ISBN10: 0374526788
- Language: English
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Reflections on the Revolution in France
$14.00 Add to cartBurke’s seminal work was written during the early months of the French Revolution, and it predicted with uncanny accuracy many of its worst excesses, including the Reign of Terror. A scathing attack o… [more below]
- Series: English Library
- Author: Burke, Edmund
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 16 1982
- ISBN10: 0140432043
- Language: English
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Miss Dior: A Wartime Story of Courage and Couture
$30.00 Read more“Remarkable.” –Hamish Bowles, Vogue
Miss Dior is a story of freedom and fascism, beauty an
The overdue restoration of Catherine Dior’s extraordinary life, from her brother’s muse to Holocaust survivor- Author: Picardie, Justine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1250858844
- Language: English
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Paris Reborn
$26.00 Add to cartIn the mid-nineteenth century, the Paris we know today was born, the vision of two extraordinary men: the endlessly ambitious Emperor Napol駮n III and his unstoppable accomplice, Baron Haussmann. Thi
- Author: Kirkland, Stephane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 27 2014
- ISBN10: 1250042682
- Language: English
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Lunch in Paris: A Love Story, with Recipes
$19.99 Add to cartIn Paris for a weekend visit, Elizabeth Bard sat down to lunch with a handsome Frenchman — and never went home again.
Was it love at first sight? Or was it the way her knife slid effortlessly throug- Author: Bard, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 07 2011
- ISBN10: 0316042781
- Language: English
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Paris Journal, 1956-65
$17.99 Add to cartThis portrait of a city and an era is drawn from the the author’s celebrated “Letter from Paris,” a series that appeared in The New Yorker from 1925 to 1975 over the signature “Gen黎.” Edited by Will… [more below]
- Series: Paris Journal #2
- Author: Flanner
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: July 28 1988
- ISBN10: 015670949X
- Language: English
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The Napoleonic Wars: A Captivating Guide to the Conflicts That Began Between the United Kingdom and France During the Rule of Napoleon Bona
$29.99 Add to cartIf you want to discover the captivating history of the Napoleonic Wars, then keep reading…
The Napoleonic Wars, which took place between 1803 and 1815, were spearheaded by probably France’s best tact
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 106
- Publish Date: December 02 2019
- ISBN10: 195092498X
- Language: English
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Sixty Million Frenchmen Can’t Be Wrong: Why We Love France, But Not the French
$21.99 Add to cartA historical and cultural guide revealing the French approach to land, food, privacy, language, and more and how globalization led France to become one of the unlikeliest influential countries in the
- Author: Nadeau, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 01 2003
- ISBN10: 1402200455
- Language: English
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The Rough Guide to Paris (Travel Guide with Free Ebook)
$24.99 Add to cartThis practical travel guide to Paris features detailed factual travel tips and points-of-interest structured lists of all iconic must-see sights as well as some off-the-beaten-track treasures. Our iti
- Series: Rough Guides
- Author: Guides, Rough
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1839058471
- Language: English
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Les Fleurs Du Mal: Bilingual Edition
$19.95 Read moreThe bilingual, illustrated, and National Book Award-winning edition of Charles Baudelaire’s masterpiece. The complete French text is accompanied with an English translation by Richard Howard.
Charles- Author: Baudelaire, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0879234628
- Language: English
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As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis Devoto
$19.99 Add to cartA National Bestseller
Winner of an International Association of Culinary Professionals Award for Literary Food Writing “An absorbing portrait of an unexpected friendship.” — Entertainment Weekly “Jul- Author: Reardon, Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 10 2012
- ISBN10: 0547577486
- Language: English
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Paris and Her Cathedrals
$32.50 Add to cart“So infectious is R. Howard Bloch’s passion for his subject that even those unable to do the traveling required will find in Paris and Her Cathedrals an inspiring guide to these time-hallowed masterpi… [more below]
- Author: Bloch, R. Howard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1631493922
- Language: English
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The Little Book of Champagne: A Bubbly Guide to the World’s Most Famous Fizz!
$8.95 Add to cartOriginally served at the coronations of French kings, Champagne is now popular around the world and sales increase year on year as people discover this delicious, delightful, de-lovely drink. Although
- Series: Little Books of Food & Drink #18
- Author: Hippo!, Orange
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1800692021
- Language: English
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The Temporary European: Lessons and Confessions of a Professional Traveler
$18.99 Add to cartWrite guidebooks, make travel TV, lead bus tours? Cameron Hewitt has been Rick Steves’ right hand for more than 20 years, doing just that.
The Temporary European is a collection of vivid, entertaining
- Author: Hewitt, Cameron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1609522044
- Language: English
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French Cooking for Beginners: 75+ Classic Recipes to Cook Like a Parisian
$16.99 Add to cartFrom Paris direct to your table-the complete French cookbook for beginners
The French may not have invented cooking, but they certainly have perfected the art of eating well. In this definitive French
- Author: de Mélogue, François
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 174
- Publish Date: March 31 2020
- ISBN10: 1646115899
- Language: English
