{"product_id":"notes-from-the-cevennes-adam-thorpe-9781472966315","title":"Notes from the Cévennes by Adam Thorpe (Paperback)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA charming memoir exploring the history, landscape and people of rural France, told through the eyes of a Parisian-born Englishman, writer and poet. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAdam Thorpe's home for the past 25 years has been an old house in the Cévennes, a wild range of mountains in southern France. Prior to this, in an ancient millhouse in the oxbow of a Cévenol river, he wrote the novel that would become the Booker Prize-nominated \u003ci\u003eUlverton\u003c\/i\u003e, now a Vintage Classic. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn more recent writing Thorpe has explored the Cévennes, drawing on the legends, history and above all the people of this part of France for his inspiration. In his charming journal,\u003ci\u003e Notes from the Cévennes\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 nearby Nîmes. 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? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart 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 \u003ci\u003eTravels with a Donkey in the Cévennes\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55333517197655,"sku":"9781472966315","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0799\/4569\/5575\/files\/9781472966315.jpg?v=1791495744","url":"https:\/\/somiibooks.com\/products\/notes-from-the-cevennes-adam-thorpe-9781472966315","provider":"Somiibooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}