An essential, richly informative, and always entertaining sourcebook on Provence from the writer that has made the spot his own.

Though organized from A to Z, that is hardly a conventional work of reference. It is rather an array of those areas of Provence that Peter Mayle in almost twenty years there’s found to end up being the most interesting, inquisitive, delicious, or downright fun.

He writes approximately subjects as diverse as structures, expatriates, scorpions, the Provençal personality, legends, lavender, linguistic oddities, the roots of “La Marseillaise,” crazy boars and Frenchwinds. And, of course, he writes about drink and food.

Provence A-Z is a pleasure for Peter Mayle’s ever-growing viewers and these unabridged choices are the perfect match to any guidebook on Provence, or, for that matter, France.