Alumni Travel Reading 2018-2019: Cruising the Rhône River

Well known author Peter Mayle provides his recollections from twenty-five years in the South of France

Masterworks by great Romantic, Impressionist, and early modern artists are presented in relationship to the 19th-century horticultural revolution that transformed the landscape of France.

Lawrence Durrell, made Provence his home for 30 years. In this, his last book, he describes the culture and history of the area.

Through its architecture, literature, landscape, and popular culture, this book analyzes and celebrates the region.

International Dagger Award shortlisted author of The Murderer in Ruins, Cay Rademacher, delivers a beautifully atmospheric new story.

After finding herself mixed up in a murder investigation the previous Summer, Katherine Goff's life simply has not been the same. When Katherine stumbles across a body in the local museum during a tour, she finds herself caught up once again.

A new edition of the French writer's most famous novel, her wartime writings and a collection of autobiographical essays.

The works of Patrick Modiano, recent Nobel Prize winner, are beginning to appear in English translation. In this novel, Modiano presents the tale of adolescent schoolmates at the exclusive Valvert School on the outskirts of Paris: "abandoned children of privilege, left to create new family ties among themselves."

Seeking to penetrate the mysteries of two great wine regions Jean-Robert Pitte embarks upon an evocative and fascinating exploration of the land, people, and wines of Bordeaux and Burgundy.

French Wine covers the history of wine in France from Etruscan, Greek, and Roman imports and the adoption of wine by beer-drinking Gauls to its present status within the global marketplace. Rod Phillips places the history of grape growing and winemaking in each of the country's major regions within broad historical and cultural contexts.

Scientist Charles Frankel takes readers on a tour of the French winemaking regions to illustrate how the soil, underlying bedrock, relief, and microclimate shape the personality of a wine. Burgundy and Provence are among the regions that Frankel explores.

This book provides a survey of the architecture and urbanism of Provence during the Roman era.

Historian and librarian Robert Darnton provides this tour of 18th C. French literary life through details gathered from letters and documents from authors, publishers, printers, paper millers, type founders, ink manufacturers, and others.

With the arrival of Clement V in 1309, seven popes ruled the Western Church from Avignon until 1378. Jo lle Rollo-Koster traces the story of the transplanted papacy in Avignon, the city the popes transformed into their capital.

Visit the museum's Web site, or review the book, available from libraries.

Catalog of an exhibition held at Historisches Museum Bern, Apr. 25-Aug. 24, 2008, Bruggemuseum & Groeningemuseum Brügge, Mar. 27-Jul. 21, 2009 and Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, Sept. 15, 2009-Jan. 10, 2010.

From Roman generals and Gallic chieftains, to Charlemagne through Marie Antoinette and the storming of the Bastille to Vichy, the Resistance and beyond, Norwich provides a lively history for his readers.