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Cicerone Walking in Provence: Alpes Maritimes, Var, Vaucluse and Northern Provence (Cicerone Guide) | 
 enlarge | Author: Janette Norton
Publisher: Cicerone Press
Category: Book
List Price: $17.95
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 736993
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2 Sub
Pages: 284
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 6.5 x 4.5 x 0.7
ISBN: 1852843829
Dewey Decimal Number: 796
EAN: 9781852843823
ASIN: 1852843829
Publication Date: August 2003
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Condition: Light wear to cover & edges, otherwise Like New.
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Product Description
"Walking in Provence" provides an excellent selection of over 40 walks in this popular area. Covering the Alps Maritimes, Var, Vaucluse and northern Provence, the suggested walks are of short and medium length. Each walk is fully described and illustrated with a sketch map and photographs. Local information of interest to the walker is thoroughly researched, and each walk captures the very essence and atmosphere of life in Provence. There are 42 walks of short and medium length all with clear, accurate descriptions of the routes and detailed maps to accompany them. There is also practical information for the visitor as well as the historical and cultural background to the area. None of the walks in this book goes higher than 2000 metres and many of them are considerably lower. They are generally within the capability of an averagely fit person and are graded Difficult, Medium or Easy. The comments after the grading should give a good idea as to whether the walk is suitable for you.
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Invaluble Guide For Walking Enthusiasts November 13, 2005
Karen Stern
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Used this book on a 10 day break from New York City in October. We were yearning for some good day hikes, great food and wine, and an authentic feel for the region. This book helped steer us to all three. We did three walks from the book: Le Cousson (our favorite of the three), North Side of Luberon (entirely covered by mist the day we did it), and La Gambade (Dentelles de Montmirail). The color photos from almost every walk, detailed and interesting walk descriptions, and excellent directions for navigating trails with varying degrees of sign-posting were all very useful. This book is small enough to tote around with you daily, has great tips on town highlights and where best to base yourself for walking, and enticing walks with great, detailed descriptions. I wished we had more time to try more of the walks! The small maps for each walk are only somewhat useful--offshoots of the trail are barely indicated, which can be confusing. Also, we are two moderately fit 30 year-olds, and we found some of the walks a little more vigorous than suggested by Janette. Our times to do each walk were pretty close to those suggested in the book. We stop to take a lot of photos and gawk at views, so in general we erred on the side of taking longer to do each walk than Janette indicates (but not by much). We also relied heavily on "Best Of Provence," a great, general, short-and-sweet guide book for the region. Thanks for a wonderful, unique guide, Janette!
Superb hiking info for Southern France December 3, 2007
Rune Zelow Lundquist (Oslo, Norway)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
We have a secondary home in Provence, and have already used another hiking book by the same author, namely for the Savoy mountain area. That book is full of tempting descriptions of hiking suggestions. The one we followed, was a real adventure, and we got such a wonderful view of the Mont Blanc mountain range that we already decided to follow several other of the author's suggestions. The descriptions are very clear, with a good drawing of the trail, plus useful advice and comments. Since we mostly walk in our own region, Provence, we just ordered the present book for this area, and have already got several ideas of nice trips to make. Being hiking addicts, it is important to have really useful hiking info, and we have never seen any better than the info provided by this author.
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