The author who unforgettably captured the experience of
starting a new life in Tuscany in bestselling travel memoirs
expands her horizons to immerse herself�and her readers�in
the sights, aromas, and treasures of twelve new special
places.
A Year in the World is vintage
Frances Mayes�a celebration of the allure of travel, of
serendipitous pleasures found in unlikely locales, of memory
woven into the present, and of a joyous sense of quest. An
ideal travel companion, Frances Mayes brings to the page the
curiosity of an intrepid explorer, remarkable insights into
the wonder of the everyday, and a compelling narrative style
that entertains as it informs.
With her beloved
Tuscany as a home base, Mayes travels to Spain, Portugal,
France, the British Isles, and to the Mediterranean world of
Turkey, Greece, the South of Italy, and North Africa. In
Andaluc�a, she relishes the intersection of cultures. She
cooks in Portugal, gathers ideas in the gardens of England
and Scotland, takes a literary pilgrimage to Burgundy,
discovers an ideal place to live in Mantova, and explores
the essential Moroccan city of Fez. She rents houses among
ordinary residents, shops at neighborhood markets, wanders
the back streets, and everywhere contemplates the concept of
home. While in Greece, she follows the classic Homeric
voyage across the Aegean, lives in a bougainvillea-draped
stone house in Crete, and then drives deep into the Mani. In
Turkey with friends, she sails the ancient coast, hiking to
archaeological sites and snorkeling over sunken Byzantine
towns. Weaving together personal perceptions and informed
commentary on art, architecture, history, landscape, and
social and culinary traditions of each area, Mayes brings
the immediacy of life in her temporary homes to the reader.
An illuminating and passionate book that will be savored by
all who loved Under the Tuscan Sun, A Year in the
World is travel writing at its peak.
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