France Walks and Tours Guides

DK Eyewitness Top 10 Provence & the Cote D'Azur

Destinations: France

Categories: 1-2 week trips, Food & Dining, Mid Range, Villages, Walks and Tours, Work & Travel

English, 159 pages, Feb 2008,  

New & Used: from US$ 6.00

Your guide to the 10 best of everything. Unmissable museums and galleries, best restaurants in each area, most magical hilltop villages, places to see and be seen, insider tips for every visitor....  Show details

A Journey into Matisse's South of France

Destinations: France

Categories: 1 month or more trips, 1-2 week trips, 4-7 day trips, Arts, Backpacker, Beach, Business Traveler, Children & Travel with Children, City, Culture, Day trips, Expatriate, Gay & Lesbian, History, Honeymoon & Romance, Museums & Galleries, Senior Traveler, Sightseeing, Single, Villages, Walks and Tours, Weekend trips, Women, Work & Travel

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English, 75 pages, Aug 2009,  

PDF download: US$ 8.00
New & Used: from US$ 19.54

This beautiful and fascinating book follows Henri Matisse on his journeys into the South of France, where he discovered the light and color that saturate his work. Part biography, part travel guide, it explores the painter's private life, artistic evolution, and relationships with the places that inspired him...  Show details

A Journey into Flaubert's Normandy

Destinations: France

Categories: 1-2 week trips, 4-7 day trips, Arts, Backpacker, Business Traveler, Culture, Day trips, Expatriate, Gay & Lesbian, History, Honeymoon & Romance, Museums & Galleries, Senior Traveler, Sightseeing, Single, Student, Villages, Walks and Tours, Weekend trips, Women, Work & Travel

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English, 80 pages, Aug 2009,  

PDF download: US$ 8.00

Steeped in history and beguilingly beautiful, but also stiflingly closed-minded, 19th-century Normandy both inspired and appalled the French novelist Gustave Flaubert. This fascinating, richly illustrated book explored the writer's love-hate relationship with the region that featured so prominently in his con...  Show details

The Roads to Santiago

Destinations: France - Spain

Categories: History, Sightseeing, Walks and Tours

English, 256 pages, Sep 2008, Ed illustrated edi,  

New & Used: from US$ 43.91

According to legend, St. James the Apostle preached throughout the Iberian peninsula. His bones found their way to the cathedral at Santiago de Compostela and today many pilgrims make trips to the shrine. This fully illustrated book covers all the routes to this holy place from Paris and Spain. Providing read...  Show details