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Title: The Most Beautiful Villages of Brittany by James Bentley, Hugh Palmer ISBN: 0500019355 Publisher: Thames & Hudson Pub. Date: 01 September, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5
Rating: 5
Summary: Most Beautiful, Indeed.
Comment: Speaking as a native New Englander, I feel like I've seen enough terrific-looking towns that I can appreciate a really beautiful village. The ones photographed in this book are spectacular. This really is a great coffee table book. The colors in the photos just draw the eye in. It's hard to describe... You will see a whole village of ancient stone buildings, with rock walls in a sort of dusky brown, and suddenly, off to the side, a brightly colored painted boat. Or maybe just a little flower garden, with lots of little Manet-esque red blossoms. And the architecture, or course, is uniformly, yet diversely, amazing. Roman, medieval, and (slightly) more modern, it all just fits together so beautifully. Furthermore, the whole book is full of cool little articles talking about historically interesting tidbits of history, legend, etc. from the region.
Also -- if anyone who enjoys this book has reading ability in French, I'd like to recommend "La Langue Gauloise", by P.Y. Lambert. It talks about the original language of France, "Gaulish", an early Celtic tongue, from before the days of Caesar and friends. I think that one of the intriguing things about Brittany is that this original, pre-Romance-languages tongue of the region was largely reinstated, in the 5th and 6th centuries A.D., by Celtic-speaking refugees when Britain was being overrun by the Germanic-speaking Angles and Saxons. I think it's interesting to look at the place names in Brittany, and try to learn whether they were named back in prehistoric times, or in the era since the 5th and 6th century. This is the kind of question that this book raises -- the concatenated sense of sedimentary century laid upon century, laid upon century, is absolutely enthralling.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Most Beautiful Villages of Brittany
Comment: This book is one in a series of "The Most Beautiful Villages of...". Although they all have different authors the photography is exceptional. The book concentrates on four areas and the villages that make up each area. There is a short history of each region as well as interesting information on the villages and captions on the photos. In my opinion it is the photographs that give this book five stars. It is a wonderful "coffee table" book to own.
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Title: The Most Beautiful Villages of Normandy (The Most Beautiful Villages Series) by Hugh Palmer ISBN: 0500510725 Publisher: Thames & Hudson Pub. Date: 2002 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: The Most Beautiful Villages of the Loire by Hugh Palmer, James Bentley ISBN: 0500510512 Publisher: Thames & Hudson Pub. Date: 2001 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: The Most Beautiful Villages of Burgundy by James Bentley, Hugh Palmer ISBN: 0500018626 Publisher: Thames & Hudson Pub. Date: 1998 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: The Most Beautiful Villages of Provence by Michael Jacobs, Hugh Palmer ISBN: 0500541876 Publisher: Thames & Hudson Pub. Date: 2002 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: The Most Beautiful Villages of the Dordogne by James Bentley, Hugh Palmer ISBN: 0500542015 Publisher: Thames & Hudson Pub. Date: 1996 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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