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UK Holidays - The Most Beautiful Villages of France (Most Beautiful Villages)
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List Price: $45.00
Our Price: $133.13
Availability: N/A
Manufacturer: Thames & Hudson
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 944.009734
EAN: 9780500541623
ISBN: 0500541620
Label: Thames & Hudson
Manufacturer: Thames & Hudson
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 232
Publication Date: 1991-01
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Studio: Thames & Hudson
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Editorial Reviews:
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A visual celebration of France's most beautiful and perfectly preserved medieval villages, each a harmonious marriage of architecture and landscape. Complementing the selection of villages is a list of hotels and restaurants.
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Not bad, but ...
Comment: Dominique Reperant's "village" has fewer than 1,050 inhabitants and he defines "most beautiful" as most preserved. So it's no surprise that his photographic essay that explored even the tiniest corners of France resulted in a collection of impressive shots that showcase France's roots in the medieval middle ages. And while the coffe table sized book will serve as a pleasurable souvenir of a trip into the French countryside, I was considerably underwhelmed with the quality of the photographs. They have a frustrating sameness of style and composition from photograph to photograph that failed to capture the distinctness of each town and enormous variation in the geographical settings of the towns from region to region. And, if there was a rationale to the order in which the towns were presented, it escaped me entirely.
A nice memory to be sure but certainly not a book that I would categorize as so stunning that it would prompt an armchair traveller into booking a trip on the next available flight to France.
Paul Weiss
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Summary: Nice, but the photos are a bit 'pale' looking
Comment: I have five of these ''Most Beautiful..." books, and have to say there is something of a problem with this particular book. Many of the images here seem to lack any real black tones in them, and consequently lack depth. It is not because they are meant to look misty and atmospheric, it is simply something missing either in the original photography or in the printing. Compared to the images in "The Most Beautiful Towns of England", for example, where the images are pin sharp and full of contrast, they are simply not as well produced.
Still worth the money if you want to see some of the villages here, but there is little within quite as alluring as the cover photo, in my opinion.
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Summary: The Soul of France
Comment: This is a thoroughly enjoyable and easy reading book. The authors take you through rural France and anyone who has visited there can identify with it. The process of social and cultural acclimmatization is both facinating and entertaining.
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Summary: Good, but could be better
Comment: Yes, the villages in this book are beautiful, but having been to France several times, I was a bit disappointed that the photos in this book are all relatively similar. Although some of the photos and descriptions are impressive, this book could have provided more intimate or unique photos of the villages and shops as well as more interesting prose.
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Summary: The pleasures of France
Comment: This is my third copy of this book. I give it as gifts to everyone I love. I live the dream with a home in Turenne (the picture on the cover) My aim is to visit every single one of these exceptional villages.
The book is beautifully illustrated, and the text has the essence of each village exactly. It whets one's appetite to see The Most Beautiful Villages of France.
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