| Poitou-Charentes Bookshop: Featured Titles Cognac: The Seductive Saga of the World's Most Coveted Spirit | Kyle Jarrard ISBN: 0471459445 Called the "brandy of the gods" by Victor Hugo, Cognac is a universal symbol of refinement and quality. In the first comprehensive history of this celebrated drink, Kyle Jarrard charts Cognac's birth in the 1500s and its transformation into...(read more) | | » BUY IT! | France in the New Century | John Ardagh ISBN: 0140259228 Presenting a portrait of changes in French society since 1945, with the accent on the France of the mid-1990s, this book's main focus is on society, culture and the economy, but space is also given to politics. | | » BUY IT! | I'll Drink to That: Beaujolais and the French Peasant Who Made It the World's Most Popular Wine | Rudolph Chelminski ISBN: 1592403204 (Hardcover) | | » BUY IT! | Pierre Loti: Travels with the Legendary Traveller | Lesley Blanch, Philip Mansel (Introduction) ISBN: 1850434298 When Pierre Loti - traveller, acrobat, naval officer, celebrated writer - died in 1923, he was given a state funeral, the only French writer to have received such as an honour besides Victor Hugo. This storyteller - bohemian, exotic and fiercely...(read more) | | » BUY IT! | Poitou-Charentes | Val Gascoyne ISBN: 1901130231 Poitou-Charentes Lifeline is essential reading for anyone planning to live, work or buy a home in the region, and the most up-to-date source of practical information available about local communities and services. | | » BUY IT! | Vegetarian France | Alex Bourke et al ISBN: 1902259009 A comprehensive guide to vegetarian France. It includes 150 places to eat and sleep, over 20 veggie restaurants in Paris alone, vegetarian hotels and guesthouses, all-you-can-eat vegan buffets in Paris and Marseille, veggie vocabulary, the hitchhikers...(read more) | | » BUY IT! |
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