Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #141233 in Books
• Published on: 2008-03-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 488 pages

Review
Tremendously readable and informative --Harpers & Queen

This plea for the Lot, written by a real specialist, will become a classic --Quercy Recherche

This plea for the Lot, written by a real specialist, will become a classic --Quercy Recherche

Quercy Recherche
This plea for the Lot, written by a real specialist, will become a classic.

French Entrée, May 2008
Impeccably researched fact and delicious personal preference... Puts meat on the bones of other guidebooks.

Customer Reviews

A boon companion if you are travelling through Lot
I'm just back from a few days in Cahors and the surrounding area, and was fortunate to have this book with me. While not pretending to be a guide to places to eat and sleep, it was immensely useful in bringing to life the people and places of this lesser known Departement. Especially good are the well-researched anecdotes on a host of out-of-the-way places. Visitors who want to experience the real Lot should not be without it.

note from the publisher
I am the publisher of this book and would just like to point out that it is paperback, not hardback. I have tried without luck to get amazon to make correction, so please forgive me for using this rather unorthodox method.

It's also a jolly good book!

An extraordinary insight into the Lot...
Having visited the Lot a couple of times and really got to love this region of France, I was looking for a book which would offer more detail on the region. This does that and so much more. It is brilliantly written, giving details about tiny, out of the way places, the people who come from there and much history too. It is cleverly organinised into three sections which breaks the book up into the land, history, architecture, and gastronomy - then much greater detail about the different towns and villages - followed by a final section on the area surrounding the Lot.

What is striking and so pleasing is the level of detail the author has included, clearly from many years of personal experience, not only of the places but the people too. It is also surprisingly fresh, with information about developments as recent as the end of 2007. You won't find lists of hotels to visit, but you will get a real flavour of the region, its people and the culture. It has given me plenty of ideas of where to visit next time we are in the Lot.