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Cargando... From the Camargue to the Alps: A Walk Across France in Hannibal's Footstepspor Bernard Levin
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This book disappointed me. I was looking forward to understanding more of Hannibal's astonishing journey across the Alps with an army and elephants, but after the first few pages, they hardly featured. Instead, we got Levin, aware of his classical education and Britishness. He was often vivid in his description of scenery and his vignettes made good reading too. But on the whole he was disparaging, pompous, pleased with himself. This had the makings of a fascinating book. But it wasn't. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
With passion and wit, Bernard describes his travels on foot through the beautiful countryside of south-eastern France. He follows in the mighty footsteps of the great Carthaginian enemy of Rome, Hannibal, who made the expedition with an army and elephants nearly two millennia before. From the Camargue via the Rhone Valley, across the Alps and into Italy during August snowstorms, he comments on the social and historical importance of the landscapes he passes through, taking detours to the table of chef Jacques Pic at Valence and the Arles region immortalized by Van Gogh. The journey would not have been complete without enjoying the hospitality of the Moussets - the fifth generation of their family to produce wine at Chateauneuf-du-Pape, before turning eastwards, to face the greater challenge of the Alps. AUTHOR: Bernard Levin (1928-2004), the 'most famous journalist of his day' (The Times), made this journey in the 1980s. He was awarded a CBE for services to journalism in 1990 and is the author of the best-selling titles Enthusiasms and Conducted Tours. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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