Seeking Provence: Old Myths, New Paths - Couverture souple

Woodsworth, Nicholas

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1909961264 ISBN 13 : 9781909961265

Editeur : The Armchair Traveller at the BookHaus, 2016

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

'What was a year in Provence compared with three thousand years in Provence? Peter Mayle had hardly invented the place - surely it has to exist in another, more authentic version. No place remains a centre of Mediterranean life for that long without leaving something of itself behind.' With these musings Nicholas Woodsworth peers deeply into the Provencal life and soul. He had with him the key to much of it; 'In fact I had to look no further than my wife Jany and the large Provencal family I had married into to see hints of its ongoing survival in everything they did and said. Buried, sometimes obscure, often mystifying, an older Latin experience still lay deeply anchored in them and the places they inhabited.'This is the Provence that lies beyond the notion that it is really just the stockbroker's belt moved south for the Summer, one more invitation to the Good Life. And that it is different to be a Mediterranean, an older more fundamental way of life that is still worth learning and living today. Nicholas Woodsworth sets out on a journey to discover another Provence, a place of obscure and out of the way places.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Nicholas Woodsworth was born in Ottawa, Canada in 1953 and grew up in a diplomatic family in Africa and Asia. He graduated in Asian history. He began newspaper freelancing after settling in Aix-en-Provence in his mid-20s. He became the Financial Times Africa Correspondent in the late 1980s, and was the Weekend FT's staff travel writer from 1989 to 2003. His interest in the Mediterranean, since expanded to include the entire region, began with his marriage to his Provencal wife.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: The Armchair Traveller at the BookHaus
• Date d'édition: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1909961264
• ISBN 13: 9781909961265
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 380