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The
Rough Guide to Languedoc and
Roussillon
Brian
Catlos and Jean-Christophe Godet
(Photographer)
Publisher: Rough Guides Ltd; (paperback; 455 pages; May
2007)
ISBN-10: 1843537907
ISBN-13: 978-1843537908
This
handbook covers one of France's most beautiful and
surprising regions from the picturesque town of Collioure
and the Orb Valley mountain river to swimming at the Pont
Du Gard Roman aqueduct. There is practical advice on
subjects as varied as hiking trails, boating on the Canal
du Midi and the Catalan dances of Roussillon.
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Two
Vagabonds in Languedoc:
Classic
Portrait of a French Village
Jan
Gordon and Cora Gordon
Publisher:
Bene Factum Publishing Ltd (Paperback: 248 pages) (May
2007)
ISBN-10: 1903071119
ISBN-13: 978-1903071113
"Two
Vagabonds in Languedoc" - written in 1925 - is Jan and
Cora Gordon's charming and evocative ketch of the French
village of Najac. If you return today to the very same
village on the border of the Departments of Tarn and
Aveyron you will find that many of the landmarks
mentioned are still there.; "Two Vagabonds" captures all
the charm of France.
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Languedoc
and Southwest France
(Drive around)
Gillian Thomas and John Harrison
Publisher:
Thomas Cook Publishing (Paperback: 288 pages) 2nd Rev Ed
edition (Jun 2007)
ISBN-10: 1841577839
ISBN-13: 978-1841577838
"The Drive
Around" series provides a comprehensive but flexible
reference source as you tour a region by car. The best of
Languedoc's diverse and unspoilt landscapes is included,
from the beaches of the coastal resorts to the wild and
remote mountain plateaux, such as Cathar country, the
Cevennes and the Pyrenees, and the Tarn and Gard regions.
A combination of guidebook and route map this book
contains everything the self-drive traveller needs en
route.
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Walking
In The Cathar Region: Cathar Castles Of South West
France
Alan
Mattingly
Cicerone
Press; Paperback - 207 pages (Nov 2005)
ISBN : 185284423X
This
guide offers 30 walks based on the once strategically
important castles that dominate the foothills of the
Pyrenees. Each walk has as its focal point a castle or
other location associated with Cathar history (mostly the
13th century). Summaries of the historical connections of
each location with the Cathar period are given, and
together these relate the story of the downfall of the
Cathar Church, from the massacre in Beziers in 1209 to
the siege at Montsegur in 1244, which ended with the
burning alive of over 200 believers who refused to
renounce their Cathar faith.
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Wanderings
by Southern Waters, Eastern
Aquitaine
Edward Harrison
Barker
IndyPublish.com;
Hardback - 220 pages (Nov 2005)
ISBN : 1421928922
First publish in
1893, this is a fascinating account of rural South West
France in the late 17th century as experienced by the
famous traveller and explorer Edward Harrison Barker
author of "Wayfaring in France".
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