A Year in the World - Journeys of a Passionate Traveller

Zusatztext “Those who want to find parts of themselves they didn’t know existed! take risks! have an adventure . . . and discover another culture altogether! with its different rhythms! tastes! smells! and ways of being human—those readers will find in Mayes a kindly! eager! tough-spirited guide.” — Houston Chronicle “Mayes is a master at capturing a solid sense of place through her lush! poetic narratives.” — Orlando Sentinel “It’s easy to understand why Mayes has become a kind of cult figure for seekers of The Good Life. She not only inspires us to seize the moment! sip the wine! and smell the roses! she also makes us feel it is quite possible to transform our lives! just as she did.” — Lexington Herald-Leader “Mayes displays a gift for conveying everyday life through her writing . . . and presents a simpler! less frantic version of how to live one’s life.” — USA Today “Frances Mayes is! before all else! a wonderful writer.” — Chicago Tribune “Armchair travel is rarely this astute and fun.” —Scripps-Howard News Service “Nobody is better than Frances Mayes at giving the sharp sensory details that take you immediately into a place: colors! sounds! smells! tastes…Her writing captures the whole experience…This is travel writing of high quality! focused on beauty.” —Cleveland Plain Dealer "Befitting her gifts as a poet! Mayes's prose shines with evocative imagery! bringing life to every subject she encounters across her peripatetic year." - Booklist Informationen zum Autor Frances Mayes Klappentext A CLASSIC FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF UNDER MAGNOLIAA Year in the World is vintage Frances Mayes-a celebration of the allure of travel, of serendipitous pleasures found in unlikely locales, of memory woven into the present, and of a joyous sense of quest. With her beloved Tuscany as a home base, Mayes travels to Spain, Portugal, France, the British Isles, and to the Mediterranean world of Turkey, Greece, the South of Italy, and North Africa. Weaving together personal perceptions and informed commentary on art, architecture, history, landscape, and social and culinary traditions, Mayes brings the immediacy of life in her temporary homes to readers. An illuminating and passionate book that will be savored by all who loved Under the Tuscan Sun, A Year in the World is travel writing at its peak. Blood Oranges Andalucía Who cut down the moon's stem? (Left us roots Of water.) How easy to pluck flowers from This infinite acacia. --Federico García Lorca January, old Janus face looking left at the past year and right toward the new. I'm for the new--no mournful backward glance. Make tracks , I write one night on the steamed kitchen window. The year began with a break-in at my house while my husband and I were finishing dinner. Ed had just tipped the last of a vino nobile into our glasses. Laughing, we were talking about the turn of the year, with Nina Simone crooning "The Twelfth of Never" to us. We'd cleared the plates, the candles were burning down, and outside the dining room window we saw only our potted lemon trees, swaying snapdragons, and yellow Carolina jasmine, for January in California is a blessed season. In a flash, everything changed. A man crashed through the living room window, screaming that he wanted to die, then loomed on the middle of the rug, his bundled body in ski jacket, droopy pants, and homeboy hat pulled down around his moony face. Even as I write this, my heart starts to pound. "Give me a knife," he shouted. "I've never done this before, but I'm doing it now." I thought, not does he have a gun will we die , but he's goofy . Then terror pumped through every vein in my body. T his can't be happening! Somehow, we'd stood up. Run. My ch...

Product details

• Authors: Frances Mayes
• Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2011
• EAN: 9780767910064
• ISBN: 978-0-7679-1006-4
• No. of pages: 448
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 203 mm x 23 mm
• Subject: Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales > World, Arctic, Antarctic