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Travel Narratives

Under the Tuscan sun : at home in Italy

Frances Mayes.

A year in Provence

Peter Mayle ; illustrations by Judith Clancy.

Notes from a small island

Bill Bryson.

The olive farm : a memoir of life, love, and olive oil in the south of France

Carol Drinkwater.

The olive season : amour, a new life, and olives too ...!

Carol Drinkwater.

Four seasons in Rome : on twins, insomnia, and the biggest funeral in the history of the world

Anthony Doerr.

Encore Provence : new adventures in the south of France

Peter Mayle.

Foreign Tongue A Novel of Life and Love in Paris.

Vanina Marsot.

Travel

At home in Japan : a foreign woman's journey of discovery

Rebecca Otowa.

Biography, Nonfiction, Travel

At Home in Japantells the true story of a foreign woman who has been, for 30 years, the housewife, custodian and chatelaine of a 350-year-old farmhouse in rural Japan. This astonishing book traces a circular path, from the basic physical details of life in the house and village, through relationships with family, neighbors and the natural and supernatural entities with whom the family shares the house. Rebecca Otowa then focuses on her inner life...