La Vie by John Lewis-Stempel
La Vie by John Lewis-Stempel
SKU: 9781804995815 • Barcode: 9781804995815

La Vie

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Book information

  • Format: Paperback
  • Main subject: The countryside, country life: general interest
  • Genre / subject: Travel writing
  • Author: John Lewis-Stempel
  • Audience: Adults

About the book

La Vie by John Lewis-Stempel is a travel book for adult readers.

The Charente: roofs of red terracotta tiles, bleached-white walls, windows shuttered against the blaring sun. The baker does his rounds in his battered little white van with a hundred warm baguettes in the back, while a cat picks its way past a Romanesque church, the sound of bells skipping across miles of rolling, glorious countryside.

For many years a farmer in England, John Lewis-Stempel yearned once again to live in a landscape where turtle doves purr and nightingales sing, as they did almost everywhere in his childhood. He wanted to be self-sufficient, to make his own wine and learn the secrets of truffle farming. And so, buying an old honey-coloured limestone house with bright blue shutters, the Lewis-Stempels began their new life as peasant farmers.

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