A year in the world : journeys of a passionate traveller
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Author
Published
New York : Broadway Books, [2006].
Format
Book
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xx, 420 pages : map ; 22 cm
Status
Southside - Adult
914 May
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Published
New York : Broadway Books, [2006].
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Notes
General Note
Map on endpapers.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-420).
Description
The author who captured the experience of starting a new life in Tuscany expands her horizons to immerse herself--and her readers--in the sights, aromas, and treasures of twelve new special places. This book is a celebration of the allure of travel, of serendipitous pleasures found in unlikely locales, of memory woven into the present, and of a joyous sense of quest. She rents houses among ordinary residents, shops at neighborhood markets, wanders the back streets, and everywhere contemplates the concept of home. Weaving together personal perceptions and informed commentary on art, architecture, history, landscape, and social and culinary traditions of each area, Mayes brings the immediacy of life in her temporary homes to the reader.--From publisher description.
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