Provence: The Collected Traveler: An Inspired Anthology & Travel Resource

Paperback - 27 March, 2001 - Fodor's
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By: Barrie Kerper
ISBN: 0609806785

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What a wonderful approach!

I love the approach this author has taken with the Collected Traveler. It offers so much more depth as additional reading and background than the traditional travel guides.

I really appreciate the amount of thoughtful recommendations for web-sites, travel companies, other books and commentaries that this book includes.

Experiencing Provence beyond the travel guides.

The seductive south of France is synonymous with lavender fields, open-air flower markets, jasmine, olive oil, gorgeous sunsets, wine, pastel houses,topless starlets on the beach, and grande cuisine like boullabaisse, socca, ratatouille, and almond calissons. Provence and the Cote d"Azure have attracted painters like Matisse, Cezanne and Picasso, writers like Colette and Peter Mayle, royalty like Prince Rainier and Princess Grace, and celebrities like Brigitte Bardotte and Johnny Depp, and it is no surprise that the south of France is also a popular travel destination. If you're looking for a Provence guidebook with detailed maps, tours, recommended hotels and restauraunts, museum hours and prices, skip this book and read Rick Steve's trusted travel guide instead. But if you're curious why "the red tile roofs, the heartbraking blue of water, the sun across mountains, the changes into evening twilight . . . can still turn a banker into a painter" (pp. 255-56) in Provence, read Barrie Kerper's anthology. It encourages readers to experience the south of France on their own, and immerse themselves in Provence and the Cote d'Azur beyond the pages of other best-selling travel guides. Contributors include Peter Mayle, Mary Cantwell, Alexandra Foges, Patricia Wells, Herbert Gold, Lorraine Alexander, Gully Wells,Linda Dannenberg, Randall Rothenberg, Cary Marriott, Cara De Silva, Jeffrey Robinson, Frank Prial, and Judith Thurman.

G. Merritt