Peter Mayle Libri

Max Skinner è un trentenne in carriera nel mondo sempre più difficile della finanza londinese, finché un giorno perde il posto presso la prestigiosa compagnia dei fratelli Lawton. Per fortuna ci sono le coincidenze, perché proprio quello stesso giorno riceve una lettera da un notaio francese: lo zio Henry gli ha lasciato in eredità la sua casa in Provenza, dove Max passava le vacanze estive quand'era ragazzo. Nella sua situazione l'idea di restarsene per qualche tempo in quella vecchia villa circondata dalle vigne è semplicemente irresistibile. Ma anche tra le dolci colline del Luberon, e precisamente nel villaggio di Saint-Pons, le cose non sono semplici come sembrano: circolano simpatie e antipatie, avidità e sotterfugi, e c'è chi vuoi mettere le mani su qualcosa che non gli appartiene. A Max servono un altro pizzico di fortuna e un po' di intuito, qualche amico e forse l'amore. E magari la voglia, o il sogno, di cambiare davvero vita.

An indispensable, richly informative, and always entertaining sourcebook on Provence by the writer who has made the region his own.Though organized from A to Z, this is hardly a conventional work of reference. It is rather a selection of those aspects of Provence that Peter Mayle in almost twenty years there has found to be the most interesting, curious, delicious, or down-right fun.In more than 170 entries he writes about subjects as wide-ranging as architecture and zingue-zingue-zoun (in the local patois, a word meant to describe the sound of a violin), as diverse as expatriates, Aix-en-Provence, the Provençal character, legends, lavender, linguistic oddities, the museum of the French Foreign Legion, the museum of the corkscrew, the origins of “La Marseillaise,” and a bawdy folklore character named Fanny.And, of course, he writes about food and vin rosé, truffles, olives, melons, bouillabaisse, the cheese that killed a Roman emperor, even a cure for indigestion. The wonderful accompanying artwork includes curiosities Mayle has gathered over the years — matchbooks, drawings, century-old ads, photos, tourist brochures, maps.Provence A-Z is a delight for Peter Mayle’s ever-growing audience and the perfect complement to any guidebook on Provence, or, for that matter, France.

A guide to male and female anatomy, methods of birth control, and veneral disease.

For more than 150 years P&O has been one of the world's greatest shipping lines. Beginning with the mail contract to Gibraltar, P&O quickly became the British way to travel the world. The first shipping company to offer cruises, more than 100 years later cruising on P&O's famous white ships remains an important part of the company's activities, although it is now an internationally based group with many wide-ranging interests. This is the history of the company and its operations.

A manual for teaching young children about the facts of life.

The sequel to "A Year in Provence". Peter Mayle's love affair with the south of France continues and deepens. Now he's got most of the building work organized, he's had time for a few trips - to the Cannes Film Festival, the Menerbes dog show and the wine caves at Chateauneuf-du-Pape.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this witty and warm-hearted account, Peter Mayle tells what it is like to realize a long-cherished dream and actually move into a 200-year-old stone farmhouse in the remote country of the Lubéron with his wife and two large dogs. He endures January's frosty mistral as it comes howling down the Rhône Valley, discovers the secrets of goat racing through the middle of town, and delights in the glorious regional cuisine. A Year in Provence transports us into all the earthy pleasures of Provençal life and lets us live vicariously at a tempo governed by seasons, not by days.