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Record Nr.

UNINA9910954827703321

Autore

Huber Thomas Patrick

Titolo

An American Provence / / Thomas P. Huber

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boulder, : University Press of Colorado, c2011

ISBN

9781457111709

1457111705

9781457116957

1457116952

9781607321514

1607321513

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (209 p.)

Disciplina

554.49/5

Soggetti

Landscape assessment - France - Coulon River Region

Landscape assessment - Colorado - Gunnison River Valley

Landscape assessment - Colorado - Paonia Reservoir

Geographical perception - France - Coulon River Region

Geographical perception - Colorado - Gunnison River Valley

Geographical perception - Colorado - Paonia Reservoir

Coulon River Region (France) Geography

Paonia Reservoir (Colo.) Geography

Gunnison River Valley (Colo.) Geography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgements; Prologue; 1. Places; 2. The Land; 3. Villages; 4. Wine; 5. Food; 6. Signatures; 7. Hiking; 8. La Cheville (The Ankle) Incident; 9. Landscape Miscellanea; 10. The Finish/C'est Fini; Bibliography

Sommario/riassunto

""I have talked about luscious wines and succulent fruit and exquisite dinners. But there may be no more evocative experience of the two valleys than the smell of new-mown hay in the fields at dusk. If a person were to close their eyes, they could not tell if they were in Provence or the North Fork Valley. That sweet, earthy odor is part of the



beauty of these places."" -From An American Provence     In this poetic personal narrative, Thomas P. Huber reflects on two seemingly unrelated places-the North Fork Valley in western Colorado and the Coulon River Valley in Provence, Fr