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Tremendously readable and informative --Harpers & Queen
This plea for the Lot, written by a real specialist, will become a classic --Quercy Recherche
This plea for the Lot, written by a real specialist, will become a classic --Quercy Recherche
This plea for the Lot, written by a real specialist, will become a classic --Quercy Recherche
This plea for the Lot, written by a real specialist, will become a classic --Quercy Recherche
Quercy Recherche
This plea for the Lot, written by a real specialist, will become a classic.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
a guide book to guide your steps,
By Telletubby "telletubby" (Cahors,France) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Lot: Travels Through a Limestone Landscape in SouthWest France (Paperback)
This guidebook is very old fashioned. Delightfully so. For here is no mere list of gîtes and restaurants and all the usual oft-repeated brief and bland eulogies to goats cheese and sunflowers that you can read everywhere. This is a guidebook to savour. A book that literally guides you, takes you by the hand and shows you corners and characteristics of this wonderful region of which you had either been totally ignorant or had barely understood.
It is a book of prose, of opinions, of wonderful insights. The greatest compliment I can give it is that, unlike so many guidebooks, it will have just as much value for those, like me, who have lived in the Lot for years as it will for the casual first time traveller. It is of glove box proportions (just) but its true place is on the bedside table with its chapters being savoured and digested before or after a trip or simply for pure pleasure. We learn how the modern département was formed from the old Haut et Bas Quercy, how the population of 167,000 today compares with over 300,000 a century ago. There are chapters on the History, with a separate one on the Resistance and its terrible impact on the region. Architecture and Food and Drink are both explained in chunky chapters. There are whole chapters too on Cahors and Figeac as well as one for each region in turn and even one on each of the surrounding départements. The `LOT' guide did appear before in the late eighties and at the time it was justly compared with that other classic of the region; Freda White's `Three Rivers of France'. But it has long been out of print and this fully revised edition is due to the enterprise of Jan Dodd whose new publishing venture this is. Long may it flourish!
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5.0 out of 5 stars
A boon companion if you are travelling through Lot,
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This review is from: Lot: Travels Through a Limestone Landscape in SouthWest France (Paperback)
I'm just back from a few days in Cahors and the surrounding area, and was fortunate to have this book with me. While not pretending to be a guide to places to eat and sleep, it was immensely useful in bringing to life the people and places of this lesser known Departement. Especially good are the well-researched anecdotes on a host of out-of-the-way places. Visitors who want to experience the real Lot should not be without it.
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An extraordinary insight into the Lot...,
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This review is from: Lot: Travels Through a Limestone Landscape in SouthWest France (Paperback)
Having visited the Lot a couple of times and really got to love this region of France, I was looking for a book which would offer more detail on the region. This does that and so much more. It is brilliantly written, giving details about tiny, out of the way places, the people who come from there and much history too. It is cleverly organinised into three sections which breaks the book up into the land, history, architecture, and gastronomy - then much greater detail about the different towns and villages - followed by a final section on the area surrounding the Lot.
What is striking and so pleasing is the level of detail the author has included, clearly from many years of personal experience, not only of the places but the people too. It is also surprisingly fresh, with information about developments as recent as the end of 2007. You won't find lists of hotels to visit, but you will get a real flavour of the region, its people and the culture. It has given me plenty of ideas of where to visit next time we are in the Lot.
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