France Books

This large and attractive book was created by the Discovery Channel, to tell the story of the Battle of the Nile. Brimming with details, the book tells the story of the French Revolution and the life of Napoleon Bonaparte, followed by the life of Horatio Nelson, and the exciting finale: a minute-by-minute retelling of the Battle of the Nile in 1798. Along the way, the reader is treated to many excellent pictures, charts and graphs, not to mention a plethora of highly informative sidebars.

This is a wonderful book, one that will please readers that know nothing about the subject, and those that know a lot. I am very glad that I was able to get ahold of it, and highly recommend it to you!

Accompanying a Discovery episode, the book tells the story of Napoleon's conquest of Egypt, and his Battle of the Nile with Lord Nelson. Beautifully illustrated, the authors dramatically relate the surrounding events in a detailed and clear style. A final chapter about excavations by Frank Goddio and his underwater team has provided marvelous photographs and much information about recent discoveries. Definitely a must-read for all interested in historical events, Napoleon, marine archaeology and Egypt.

As a history buff and Discovery Channel fan, I really loved this book

This was a great book for visiting paris. The pictures were very nice. The maps are very helpful for getting around to the interesting sites. The decriptions were interesting and informative. I would highly suggest this book if you are visiting paris.

This book is very helpful to use in you r firs visit to paris. They have many beautiful pictures and very useful address list of interesting sites.

I looked for many books out there for my first visit to Paris and this one turned out to be really great. It divides the city well into manageable parts and also has nice outlined walking tours of certain areas to get an overall view of the city. Overall, good information and very useful for a first visit to Paris.

Of all the guide books on travelling in France, i have found this one to be the most complete. It cover almost everything you would like to know about France. The maps for each area are correct and up-dated. All of recommements points are wounderful. When I told some French friends that what I have done in France with this book they are almost cry because I have been to some places even French didn't know. This book let you travel in France as easy as a bird and with their beautiful photos you really like to visit all of the places. Don't hesitate to get one before you travel in France. You will have a wouderful time there.

These are the best guides in the market! It is hard to believe that we are in 2001 and there are guides published with cheap paper, black and white pictures and some with no pictures at all. The National Geographic guides are perfect, with lots of usefull information and hundreds of pictures, so you have a better idea where you go and what kind of scenery you will find. Go for it if you are looking for quality.

Buying this book was vindicated last week when I had the opportunity of travelling around France for 10 days. Not knowing exactly where to go, I used the notes and colour pictures to identify potential areas of interest. Unlike many other guides this book wasn't cluttered with too much information (although I supplemented with Lonely Planet on several occasions) and had some recommended routes for travelling. The book will now double in part as a photo album as I can recognise sites previously visited. If I had to pick one book this would be it for areas of interest to see. If you require information on accomodation, places to eat this may not be the best option. As an aside some hints for future French tourists: camp sites are everywhere, go to the local tourist office and ask, many of them are sign posted as you enter towns, villages etc. Travelling on the Autoroutes is fabulous but expect to pay tolls via the peages. Arrive early to avoid the influx of tourists (of which I am admittedly one!!)

I have a townhouse and very little room to garden, but I've long desired to plan a garden that would blend in with the woods that back up to our house. This book has given me my inspiration and has cemented my decision to plan a garden that will be both natural, peaceful and beautiful. It may take a while, but I'll do it thanks to this book. Have no garden space at all? They even cover that in the "Natural Gardening without a Garden".

Of the too many gardening books I've purchased, this one has transformed me. It opened my eyes to plant groupings that are natural (often native) and pleasing the year round. The illustrations are very beautiful and really do convey what Kingsbury describes. There is also plenty of useful data to help identify the plants that suit each environment. I bought this years ago and continue to return to it for both inspiration and information.

Kingsbury writes of creating habitat for insects and hedgehogs as well as people, of selecting plants for your soil and water conditions. (He even writes on what grows best in gravel and in bogs.) This book encourages gardeners to be curious and to experiment. It is for those artists who create with plants.

My Grandparents met @ this Great Camp on Lake Lila in the mid 1930's, both employed by the Webb family. I found it an interesting live history read from the same era my grandparents were there. Beautiful descriptions of the Adirondacks and life in woods in the early 1940's.

Both my husband and I enjoyed this book. How many women would have even considered watching a fire tower middle of the Adirondacks back in 1942? The book is well written, easy to read and contains some interesting history from that time. I highly recommend it.

There are many autobiographical books concerning the Adirondack wilderness, but few come as close to the heart or reality as Frances Boone Seaman does. Set during World War II, the author describes wilderness life in great detail and realistic dialogue. Having grown up in the hamlet of Long Lake, N.Y., the author has the opportunity to first be a waitress at the famed luxurious mountain retreat of millionaire Dr. Seward Webb, the man who built the first major railroad through the Adirondacks. Working as a waitress at this lodge on the remote Lake Lila, Francis experiences the lives of the rich and famous. The people as well as the incredible beauty mesmerize her. Later, she is asked to be the first woman to occupy an extremely remote fire tower for the duration of the fire season. During this stay she experiences isolation, bear confrontations, severe thunderstorms and the constant fear of another major fire. Meanwhile she longs for her boyfriend who has since gone off to war. Never losing her sensibility or her love for her wilderness job, Frances takes the reader to a period and a place that few have had the opportunity to experience. It was another time long gone, but the sheer romanticism she writes about is immensely rewarding.

I am a horticulturist and wanted a book to research a Provencal garden I wanted to design for a client. I was leary because there were many books and I was not sure which one would be good. I made a great pick. The pictures are great and provided me with lots of ideas. The author knows a lot about gardens and specifically design. I highly recommend to anyone that wants to creat a garden with high design and a great spiritual feel.

The French country garden has experienced a renaissance in recent years. Following Rousseau's stipulation to "please the eye" the reader will find this is accomplished by placing what Jones identifies as "Land Art," right at the heart of the garden and making it the focus. Around it, she strikes a personal balance between formality and gentle disorder.

Drawing inspiration from the iconic region of Provence, New Gardens in ProvenceV features 30 designs detailing the full extent and exciting diversity of the modern French country garden.

Hundreds of arresting photographs capture Provence's seductive allure that are sure to gain favor among Francophiles. St. Fiacre the patron saint of gardens would approve of this wonderful celebration of new interpretations of French gardens, old-fashioned techniques, and the rediscovering of obscure heirlooms.

This is a very lovely book with large beautiful photos. I had been looking for a book that captured the true essence of Provencal gardens. The narratives were very informative as well. Because these were "modern" gardens I felt that the look they presented was attainable for my own garden design. One negative is the book does not go into much detail about the actual plants used. There is some plant descriptions but not as much as I hoped. I was also looking forward to more photos of the garden on the front cover. Overall, the book is one of my favorites and will be a source of reference for my ongoing gardening projects!

The book is fascinating not just because the pictures are so interesting and beautiful. Love seeing lifestyles of the rich and famous as well as showing her work then and now. Her life was so Masterpiece Theatre meets Dirty Sexy Money. I can just imagine her story of aristocracy (Prince of Wales, Lady Diana Cooper) mingling with Cafe Society (Maud Cunard, Sybil Colefax) partying with Hollywood (David Niven, Paulette Goddard, Charlie Chaplin) as a great TV series or movie. What fun!

This is a beautiful coffee table book...with the added bonus that it is a great read. This biography of English garden designer Norah Lindsay is lavishly illustrated with beautiful photographs of the gardens she designed during the years between the wars. It is a must for anyone interested in the history of garden design and plantings, or with an interest in the social and political events between the wars. It's not just for someone with an interest in gardens - reading about her friends was fascinating. I gave this book 5-stars because for me it was an entertaining read with a wonderful insight into Norah Lindsay's life, career, and friends.

Though the English woman Norah Lindsay's outstanding abilities as a gardener were widely known and respected among her circle of upper-class friends including Winston Churchill, the Prince of Wales, and Edith Wharton, she never considered making a career out of this--until at 51 and divorced, she found herself with "no husband, no money, no home," as she wrote a friend. It wasn't long before Lindsay began getting commissions for garden design and landscaping from her wealthy friends for their estates and for prominent public grounds. In the remaining 20 years of her life, she accomplished more visible and lasting landscaping than most professional landscaper designers with careers lasting a lifetime.

Black-and-white period photographs from the decades of the mid 1900s when Lindsay was active give a sense of the older, traditional English upper-class society and its tastes and attachment to its property she naturally appealed to. While later color photographs, often of the same scene and juxtaposed to it, bring out the color of the landscaping.

Her landscape design and reputation carried her to major works for upper-class and royalty in Italy, France, and elsewhere in Continental Europe. This study of Lindsay's garden design by a garden design historian is a portrait of an upper-class English life style that was largely lost in the latter decades of the 1900s, after the two World Wars and with the coming of the internationalist economic and cultural developments. Among illustrated material are mementos signed by Hilaire Belloc, another friend of Lindsay's. And besides the many period and later garden photographs are many of Lindsay's friends and acquaintances, e. g., the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Other photos such as letters of Lindsay to her sister open onto an intimate portrait of Lindsay. This finely-produced work with its balance of content by an author who is a graduate of the Harvard Landscape Institute and who traveled to many of Lindsay's surviving projects throughout Europe in her 10 years of work on the book focuses on the work, life, and social context of Norah Lindsay's work and projects so as to place her with the top level of garden designers for reasons of historical significance, stature of her projects, and garden-design aesthetics.

I am from South Africa, and really enjoy teaching my children about where I grew up. This book has lovely illustrations, and a great story about a boy and his grandmother. It reminded me of the stores, taxis, and people that make South Africa such a colorful place. This book would make a perfect addition to any family's multicultural library!

After living in South Africa for four years in the early 1990s, I came to appreciate the "small" stories of peoples' struggles as well as the larger fight for racial justice. "Not so fast, Songololo" represents both the larger and smaller story: Songologo doesn't have a pair of new sneakers - which many children take for granted - because it costs a lot of money for his family to pay for them. So when his grandmother treats him to a pair, it's a big event in his life. The pictures are lovely - capturing the rhythms of life for some South African children. I regret that there are not more books about them - and not enough by South African authors (Niki Daly is one of the few, and his other children's books set in South Africa, including Papa Lucky's Shadow and Jamela's Dress, are also lovely; Rachel Isadora is an American writer who has written some wonderful children's books set in South Africa). It's a sweet book that my daughter, who is 5, and I have loved reading together. We especially enjoyed taking it to South Africa when we went there together earlier this year, and then gave it to the mother of a four-year-old we met.

This book is full of creative, yet brief descriptions. For instance, a city crosswalk is referred to as a "zebra crossing." Also, with few words and simple language, the author is able to create vivid pictures inside the reader's head. These images are supplemented by awesome illustrations, which, besides accurately depicting the plot described in the text, also suggest stories of their own. As a kid, I liked this book because I empathized with Songololo in his quiet longing for new shoes. Now, as a teenager, I read it because the writing is meaty and touching, and the illustrations are fun to look at. You must buy this book!

This is history at its best, history at its most priceless, history rescued from the oblivion that time ultimately brings. For the memories of so many first-hand participants to have been gathered together so that actual D-Day veterans can describe in their own words the progress of that momentous, terrible day is a work of extreme value now and for all time. Exceeds all other works on the June 6, 1944 Normandy landing that I've read, not excluding those of the masterful Stephen Ambrose. If a student of the Second World War were to read this book and Studs Turkel's invaluable oral history masterpiece, The Good War, then that person would be as well-versed in facts as an undergraduate who'd taken a dozen credit hours worth of classroom lectures. I sincerely mean that. Russell Miller's Nothing Less Than Victory sets the standard not only for World War Two writing, but for any "first-hand" historical piece yet to be produced.

This book is one of the most powerful historical accounts I have read relating to D-day. The accounts come from a wide range of sources, from German soldiers manning the bunkers to French civilians caught in the crossfire. This book gives a vivid account of what it was like to be involved in the D-day invasion from all sides. It depicts the boredom pre-invasion to the sheer horror of the invasion itself. I highly reccomend it!!!

Men and machine were combined to form one of the most awesome military operations the world has ever seen. On 6 June 1944, this power was unleashed upon Nazi Germany in such a manner that books, stories and documentaries are still being written as if the battle had just been fought.

This book goes even deeper, using accounts from both sides of the war to portray the feelings of those in battle. Statistics on the projected wounded, killed and missing meant nothing to the men on that day. Their sole purpose was to carry out their orders and survive to someday make it home to their loved ones.

In Mr. Miller's foreword he relates of trying to get those he interviewed to tell of what if felt like to be at Normandy, and what was going through their heads as they approached the beaches.

This book is refereshing in that the author hits his mark and works to portray both sides of the struggle by detailing what the men felt, and not just their reflections on the battle or military strategy. As you progress through the book you will find that the author has done just that and more. It's a "riveting soldier's-eye view of the deadly confusion of battle . . . a significant contribution to military and D-Day literature."

"Nothing Less than Vistory" is quite moving and comes highly recommended to those interested in first hand accounts detailing the leadup and subsequent invasion of Normandy.

The book came in excellent condition.It also arrived earlier than expected.It was in great condition,with no damage to any of the pages.Overall.extremely pleased!

I have been using this book (former editions for 10 years). It is one of the most educated, entertaining,and comprehebsive nutrition books a have ever had. I am a nurse and share nutrition wisdom from this book with my patients on daily bases.

A user friendly and very readable text book. I have been using previous editions and look out for new ones. If a Nutrition student can afford to own just one text book, this is it.