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Armchair Travel February 2021
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Miracle Country
by Kendra Atleework
Describes how the author's thriving childhood in the natural desert landscape of the Eastern Sierra Nevada was upended by her mother's tragic early death and how the region of her youth has been ravaged by climate change.
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| A Year in Provence by Peter MayleWhat it is: a classic travelogue first published in 1989 by English writer Peter Mayle, who vividly describes his and his wife's experiences after they moved into a 200-year-old French farmhouse with a vineyard
What's inside: In chapters named after the months of the year, Mayle offers humorous and keen observations on expatriate life, locals, and the culture of Provence as well as mouthwatering descriptions of food.
Read this next: other books by Mayle; Duck Season by David McAninch; Dirt by Bill Buford; Carol Drinkwater's The Olive Farm; John Baxter's A Year in Paris; L'Appart by David Lebovitz. |
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A Year Off: A Story About Traveling the World - and How to Make It Happen for You
by Alexandra Brown
"A Year Off is a part-story, part-travel guide of a couple who decided to take a year off from their jobs to travel the world. The book is divided into chapters, each tackling a different part of the journey, including a piece of David and Alexandra's story, memories of their travels, and practical takeaways for how to take the same leap and travel, not sometime in the future, but now."
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A Year in the World: Journeys of a Passionate Traveller
by Frances Mayes
Celebrating the wonders, benefits, and experiences of travel, the best-selling author of Under the Tuscan Sun shares a collection of narrative essays in which she details her travels to Spain, Portugal, France, Britain, Turkey, Greece, southern Italy, and North Africa, interweaving personal insights with commentary on art, history, landscape, culture, and tradition.
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Chasing Matisse: a Year in France Living My Dream
by James Morgan
A memoir and biographical narrative in the traditions of the Peter Mayle and Frances Mayes travelogues recounts the author's year-long journey of self-discovery during which he followed the creative examples of Matisse and visited such locales as Paris, Corsica, Morocco, and the French Riviera.
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