La vie : a year in rural France
Lewis-Stempel, John2024
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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.
Main title:
La vie : a year in rural France / John Lewis-Stempel.
Author:
Lewis-Stempel, John, author
Imprint:
London : Penguin Books, 2024.
Collation:
viii, 194 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: London: Doubleday, 2023.
ISBN:
9781804995815 (pbk)
Dewey class:
944.650842092B LEW944.650842944.650842 LEW944.65
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
3815983