A year in the world

journeys of a passionate traveller

By Mayes, Frances

Publishers Summary:
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.Read MoreRead Less

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ISBN
978-0-76791-005-7
Publisher
New York : Broadway Books, c2006.


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Library Journal

Reviewed on January 15, 2006

Mayes's first travel memoir since Bella Tuscany (which followed the best-selling Under the Tuscan Sun) takes her further afield in her beloved Italy and beyond. The title is somewhat of a misnomer-these journeys were actually conducted over a five-year period-but they are arranged in calendar order, beginning with a January visit to Andaluc�a and concluding with a year-end trip to Mantova, Italy. In the months between, Mayes takes ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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