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Abroad in England
Par Frank Entwisle. 1982
A valley in Italy: the many seasons of a villa in Umbria
Par Lisa St. Aubin de Teran. 1994
The author tells the story of her life and challenges while restoring a run-down Italian villa. It is also a…
portrait of life in an Umbrian village, full of warm people who accept their new neighbours as family. 1994.A place in Normandy
Par Nicholas Kilmer. 1997
His ancestral home in France tugs at the American author's heart, and he longs to purchase it. As part of…
his decision-making process, he visits the rural property one day in May to evaluate its structural soundness. As he pokes and prods, he stirs up memories and associations with his family history. 1997.A perfect circle
Par Susie Kelly. 2006
Keen to discover some of France's lesser-known attractions, Susie Kelly, her husband Terry and their two dogs embarked on a…
10,000-kilometre journey, where they encounter exploding gherkins, killer waves, chilli-flavoured chocolates and sinister submarines. 2006.A house in the sunflowers: summer in Aquitaine
Par Ruth Silvestre. 1991
The author's story of her love affair with her dream house in south-west France, chronicling the friendships that she and…
her family formed during the gradual restoration of their once derelict farmhouse and the local festivities, described with natural joie de vivre. 1991.Droit pénal
Par Danièle Delisle. 1992
Droit du travail
Par Danièle Delisle. 1992
Droit du travail
Par Francine Marceau, Clément Marquis. 1990
Grèce ((Passions d'ailleurs))
Par Renée Grimaud. 2000
Conçus comme un voyage en soi, les livres de la collection font découvrir un pays en entrant peu à peu…
dans la vie quotidienne, à travers ce que l'on perçoit dès l'arrivée dans le pays ; l'histoire, racontée à travers les grands monuments ; les villes, décrites à travers des circuits, des trajets : itinéraires culturels, parcours culinaires, parcs et jardins, marchés... ; les paysages et les sites naturels, présentés de façon à mettre en valeur leurs aspects remarquables : mer, montagnes, îles, déserts ou volcans... ; les loisirs, les fêtes et la culture contemporaine, aident le lecteur à partager la vie des habitants. - 4e de couv.Dinner with Persephone: travels in Greece
Par Patricia Storace. 1997
Patricia Storace reveals how the dreams of modern Greece are the woven product of classical culture. Through a series of…
encounters with people, with Greek feast days and national dramas and wide registration of places and what happens in them, she leads her readers away from the dead language of the travel book and into a form of writing which allows critical affection and unpredictable understanding to be shared. 1997Snowball oranges: a winter's tale on a Spanish isle (Summersdale Travel Ser.)
Par Peter Kerr. 2000
A Scottish family give up relative sanity and security to go and grow oranges for a living in a secluded…
valley in the mountains of Mallorca. Being greeted by a freak snowstorm is only the first of many surprises and "experiences", and it isn't long before they realise that they have been sold a bit of a lemon of an orange farm by the wily previous owners. 2000.Islander: a journey around our archipelago
Par Patrick Barkham. 2017
The British Isles are an archipelago made up of two large islands and 6,289 smaller ones. Some, like the Isle…
of Man, resemble miniature nations, with their own language and tax laws; others, like Ray Island in Essex, are abandoned and mysterious places haunted by myths, ghosts and foxes. Patrick Barkham explores some of the most beautiful landscapes in Britain as he travels to ever-smaller islands in search of their special magic. 2017.Where the heart is: a writer in Provence
Par Marita Van der Vyver, Annelize Visser. 2006
Van der Vyver, a Capetonian writer, married a Frenchman and moved to the south of France. She continues to write…
her novels there in her home language, therefore valuing her one or two trips a year back to South Africa. But her enjoyment of her adopted home - though its bureaucracy can bring tears - shines through, even as she describes renovations, strikes, and the quest for food colouring. 2006.The spinster & the prophet: Florence Deeks, H.G. Wells, and the mystery of the purloined past
Par A. B McKillop. 2000
This volume examines the mystery behind Florence Deeks' 1925 lawsuit, which claimed that H. G. Wells plagiarized her manuscript in…
the writing of his international best-seller The Outline of History. In this exploration, McKillop introduces several sources, including renowned publishers, editors, lawyers, judges, and others, who come forward in this work to offer an account of one of the most notorious literary legal battles of the 20th century. 2000.That summer in Paris: memories of tangled friendships with Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and some others
Par Morley Callaghan. 1992
Reminiscences of the author's early career on the "Toronto Daily Star", and his 1929 trip to Paris where he made…
friends with Fitzgerald, Hemingway and other well-known literary figures. Originally published in 1963. 1992.Ireland, a bicycle and a tin whistle
Par David A Wilson. 1995
Cycling around Ireland in search of traditional music, David Wilson followed the coastline from Prebyterian Islandmagee to Gaelic Cape Clear,…
then from Dublin to Belfast. He explores the Ireland of fiddles, harps, and storytelling 'til dawn, sharing tales of the towns he visited and the people he met. Some strong language. 1995.Neither here nor there: travels in Europe
Par Bill Bryson. 1991
Bryson retraces his journeys through Europe in 1972 and 1973, when he and a high school buddy backpacked through the…
continent. Bryson revisits many of those places, and describes the changes in the sites and within himself. As the interests of Bryson and his buddy were quite different then, Bryson blends the accounts of the two journeys, offering insight into the various countries as well as his own life. Bestseller. 1991.Your rights (H wise guides)
Par Anita Naik. 1999
This guide tells children what rights they do and don't have in common situations. It covers laws relating to health,…
education, family, sex, work, the police and leisure. It also contains detailed contact addresses for getting further information and help in the UK and Republic of Ireland. For junior high readers.2 1/2 men in a boat
Par Nigel Williams. 1993
Nigel Williams's first work of non-fiction retells one of the most famous journeys of English literature - how Jerome K.…
Jerome rowed up the Thames from Kingston to Oxford - which Jerome transformed into the 1889 classic of English comedy "Three men in a boat". Williams's odyssey of the 1990s shows what has changed and what remains the same.Strands: a year of discoveries on the beach
Par Jean Sprackland. 2012
A series of meditations prompted by walking on the wild estuarial beaches of Ainsdale Sands between Blackpool and Liverpool, 'Strands'…
is about what is lost and buried then discovered, about all the things you find on a beach, dead or alive, about flotsam and jetsam, about mutability and transformation. 2012.