A Year in the World: Journeys of A Passionate Traveller
 

A Year in the World: Journeys of A Passionate Traveller

by Frances Mayes

The author who unforgettably captured the experience of starting a new life in Tuscany in bestselling travel memoirs expands her horizons to immerse herself—and her readers—in the sights, aromas, and treasures of twelve new special places.

A Year in the World is vintage Frances Mayes—a celebration of the allure of travel, of serendipitous pleasures found in... (read more)

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karla n
  • Rated 4 stars

I like that Mayes includes the important details about a place. The smell, lighting, colors. These all paint a wonderful picture of the places she travels. And she travels to so many places.

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Jerine L
  • Rated 2 stars

Inspired by the book I read written by Phra Peter Pannapadipo and Rev. Joseph H. Maier, I decided to take a closer look at Thailand by paying a visit during this Songkran. I’ve bought this book along to Bangkok in hope that at the end of my visit, it could inspire me to write a travelogue.

This book has 417 pages but I could only endure the boredom till page 72, which is the first chapter of the book. In this chapter the author talks about her account in Andalucía. She failed to...

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  • Rated 3.680851 stars
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  • Rated 3 stars
 

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  • bari h

    bari h said:

    I am reading this book because at the time I bought it, I had a need to not be where I was. I was tired of work and LA. This has been a great "escape".

    posted Wednesday, January 16 2008
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