France
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The Little Book of Paris: The Romance Capital of the World
$8.95 Read moreParis has long been in the top 3 of the most visited cities in the world, attracting a record breaking 38 million visitors in 20191. However behind the glamour and shimmer of this iconic city, Parisia
- Series: Little Book Of… #3
- Author: Hippo! Orange
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1800690258
- Language: English
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Liberty Equality Fashion: The Women Who Styled the French Revolution
$35.00 Add to cartJos駱hine Bonaparte, future Empress of France; T駻騷ia Tallien, the most beautiful woman in Europe; and Juliette R馗amier, muse of intellectuals, had nothing left to lose. After surviving incarcer
- Author: Higonnet, Anne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0393867951
- Language: English
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The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue Des Martyrs
$17.99 Add to cartElaine Sciolino, the former Paris Bureau Chief of the New York Times, invites us on a tour of her favorite Parisian street, offering an homage to street life and the pleasures of Parisian living. “I c
- Author: Sciolino, Elaine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0393353400
- Language: English
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The Cinema House and the World: The Cahiers Du Cinema Years, 1962-1981
$34.95 Read moreThe writings of one of the greatest film critics of his generation on the auteur approach of the French New Wave to a more structural examination of film.
One of the greatest film critics of his gener- Series: Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents
- Author: Daney, Serge
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 616
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1635901618
- Language: English
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Cannes – A Festival Virgin’s Guide (7th Edition): Attending the Cannes Film Festival, for Filmmakers and Film Industry Professionals
$29.95 Add to cartEach year in May over 200,000 people descend on the small Riviera resort town of Cannes to take part in all the glitz and glamour that is the Cannes Film Festival. The mere mention of the city instant
- Author: Craig, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 05 2018
- ISBN10: 1999996100
- Language: English
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Doorways of Paris
$35.99 Add to cartA photographic tour featuring the doorways of the most beautiful city in the world.
With more than three hundred photographs of Paris’s most enchanting doorways from Raquel Puig, creator of the popular
- Author: Puig, Raquel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 29 2017
- ISBN10: 1945551062
- Language: English
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The Dream of the Earth
$16.95 Add to cartThis landmark work, first published by Sierra Club Books in 1988, has established itself as a foundational volume in the ecological canon. In it, noted cultural historian Thomas Berry provides nothing… [more below]
- Author: Berry, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 09 2015
- ISBN10: 1619025329
- Language: English
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Dawn of the Belle Epoque: The Paris of Monet, Zola, Bernhardt, Eiffel, Debussy, Clemenceau, and Their Friends
$34.43 Add to cartParis in 1871 was a shambles following military defeat, siege, and a bloody uprising, and the question loomed, could this extraordinary city even survive? By 1900, the Belle Epoque was in full flower,… [more below]
- Author: McAuliffe, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: March 16 2014
- ISBN10: 1442209283
- Language: English
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The Rose of Martinique: A Life of Napoleon’s Josephine
$17.00 Add to cartOne of the most remarkable women of the modern era, Josephine Bonaparte was born Rose de Tasher on her family’s sugar plantation in Martinique. She embodied all the characteristics of a true Creole-se… [more below]
- Author: Stuart, Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 16 2005
- ISBN10: 0802142028
- Language: English
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French Country Cooking: Meals and Moments from a Village in the Vineyards: A Cookbook
$40.00 Add to cartA captivating journey through off-the-beaten-path French wine country with 100 simple yet exquisite recipes, 150 sumptuous photographs, and stories inspired by life in a small village.
“Francophiles,- Author: Thorisson, Mimi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 25 2016
- ISBN10: 0553459589
- Language: English
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La Buvette: Recipes and Wine Notes from Paris
$24.99 Add to cartThe owner of a beloved Paris wine shop, bar, and caf shares the secrets of effortless French entertaining in this lushly photographed guide featuring 50 recipes for simple, grazing-style food.
“Camil- Author: Fourmont, Camille
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1984856693
- Language: English
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The French Revolution: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe French Revolution is a time of history made familiar from Dickens, Baroness Orczy, and Tolstoy, as well as the legends of let them eat cake, and tricolours. Beginning in 1789, this period of extre… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Doyle, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: February 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0198840071
- Language: English
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Lonely Planet Experience Provence & the Cote d’Azur
$24.99 Read moreLonely Planet’s Experience Provence & the Cote d’Azur travel guide reveals exciting new ways to explore this iconic destination with one-of-a-kind adventures at every turn. Dine at sunset in idyllic S
- Series: Travel Guide
- Author: Williams, Nicola
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1838696113
- Language: English
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For the Love of Europe: My Favorite Places, People, and Stories
$23.99 Add to cartAfter 40+ years of writing about Europe, Rick Steves has gathered 100 of his favorite memories together into one inspiring, award-winning collection: For the Love of Europe: My Favorite Places, People… [more below]
- Author: Steves, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1641711310
- Language: English
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Sand and Steel: The D-Day Invasion and the Liberation of France
$40.99 Add to cartPeter Caddick-Adams’s account of the Allied invasion of France in June 1944 matches the monumental achievement of his book on the Battle of the Bulge, Snow and Steel, which Richard Overy has called th… [more below]
- Author: Caddick-Adams, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1072
- Publish Date: May 20 2019
- ISBN10: 0190601892
- Language: English
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After the Romanovs: Russian Exiles in Paris from the Belle Époque Through Revolution and War
$25.00 Add to cartFrom Helen Rappaport, the New York Times bestselling author of The Romanov Sisters comes After the Romanovs, the story of the Russian aristocrats, artists, and intellectuals who sought freedom and ref
- Author: Rappaport, Helen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1250777208
- Language: English
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Dirt: Adventures in Lyon as a Chef in Training, Father, and Sleuth Looking for the Secret of French Cooking
$18.00 Add to cart“You can almost taste the food in Bill Buford’s Dirt, an engrossing, beautifully written memoir about his life as a cook in France.” —The Wall Street Journal
What does it take to master French cookin- Author: Buford, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 30 2021
- ISBN10: 0307455807
- Language: English
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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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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
