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
Andalucia, 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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