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A charming memoir exploring the history landscape and people of rural France told through the eyes of a Parisian-born Englishman writer and poet. Adam Thorpe's home for the past 25 years has been an old house in the Cvennes a wild range of mountains in southern France. Prior to this in an ancient millhouse in the oxbow of a Cvenol river he wrote the novel thatA charming memoir exploring the history landscape and people of rural France told through the eyes of a Parisian-born Englishman writer and poet. Adam Thorpe's home for the past 25 years has been an old house in the Cvennes a wild range of mountains in southern France. Prior to this in an ancient millhouse in the oxbow of a Cvenol river he wrote the novel that would become the Booker Prize-nominated Ulverton now a Vintage Classic.In more recent writing Thorpe has explored the Cvennes drawing on the legends history and above all the people of this part of France for his inspiration. In his charming journal Notes from the Cvennes Thorpe takes up these themes writing about his surroundings the village and his house at the heart of it as well as the contrasts of city life in near by Nmes. In particular he is interested in how the past leaves impressions--marks--on our landscape and on us. What do we find in the grass earth and stone beneath our feet and in the objects around us? How do they tie us to our forebears? What traces have been left behind and what marks do we leave now?Part celebration of both rustic and urban France part memoir Thorpe's humorous and precise prose shows a wonderful stylist at work recalling classics such as Robert Louis Stevenson's Travels with a Donkey in the Cvennes.(less)

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