A Year in the World: Journeys of A Passionate Traveller | Frances Mayes

A Year in the World: Journeys of A Passionate Traveller | Frances Mayes | Diff'rent Strokes....

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A Year in the Worl...

	A Year in the World: Journeys of A Passionate Traveller Frances Mayes Broadway, 2007 - 448 pages average customer review:based on 54 reviews view larger image
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A Year in the World

I purchased this book on CD just before leaving on a very long and boring road trip from the Midwest to the West Coast. The CD transported me from freeway flanked by vast nothingness, to the cobblestone streets and cafes of Europe. Instead of "dining" on Lunchables and Diet Cokes, I was enjoying fine wines and decadent meals as I drove. I thoroughly got lost in A Year in the World, and, like all of Frances' other books (which I have read at least once), I thought it was fantastic.

Diff'rent Strokes....

Well, I've read a sample of the reviews of 'A Year in the World' and wondered how it is that people can fee so differently about a book and breathe the same way....I adored it! I have read 'Under the Tuscan Sun' & 'Bella Tuscany' and loved Frances Mayes writing, and I didn't know that this book existed until I picked it up at Amsterdam airport enroute to San Francisco a few weeks ago.....I was ecstatic and the book didn't disappoint. I had read over half of it when we landed and kept picking it up at random intervals...it stayed with me. I think she writes with a fascinating depth...part anthropological, part historical....I love her musings and trains of thought on other worlds and other times - and the timeless quality of local foods and their wonderful description just adds another enticing layer. I also loved the way that each chapter was independent of the whole - for instance, the cruise to Greece was almost like it was in a different book to the friends reunion in Scotland...and that, to me, was so descriptive of this wonderful earth we live on and it's differences and similarities. Being British, I can only apologise for us 'reserved English' and for the dreadful standard of the rented accommodation here - Frances & Ed, you're more than welcome at our house any time! Thanks for a great book.

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Continuing Saga from a great Writer

"Continuing saga of the life of the author of Under the Tuscan Sun - this time sharing her tales from all around the Mediterranean and beyond."

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