Alumni Travel Reading: Rivieras & Islands: France, Italy & Spain

This book accesses the history and culture of the French Riviera.

An anecdotal guide to the gardens of the French Riviera, including maps, photos and an annotated bibliography.

Afloat, originally published as Sur l'eau in 1888, is seemingly a simple logbook of a sailing cruise along the French Mediterranean coast. Guy de Maupassant merges fact and fiction, dream and documentation to reflect his experience in the area.

From Hyères and St. Tropez to the Italian border, Ted Jones provides a survey of the writers who traveled through the area from the most distinguished to the little known.

The title says it all...the legendary pleasures of the French Riviera.

Nelson focuses on the way American writers represented the French Riviera and how their writings helped to promote American tourism in southern France.

A sensational bestseller when it appeared in 1986, The Garden of Eden is set on the Cote d'Azur in the 1920s. Left unfinished, it is Hemingway's last novel, which he worked on intermittently from 1946 until his death in 1961.