The Vende: with Nantes & Pornic, plus La Rochelle & the ?le de R? by Angela Bird

Description: The Vende by Angela Bird, Murray Stewart Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New Description The Vendée travel guide. Also covers Nantes, Pornic, La Rochelle, Île de Ré. Travel information and holiday advice for this part of Pays de la Loire includes hotels, restaurants, camping and self-catering. Also covered are family holidays, beaches, history, cuisine, wine, walking, cycling, birdwatching and museums. Publisher Description New from Bradt is the thoroughly updated second edition of The Vendée, the only English-language guidebook to focus on this part of Pays de la Loire. Also covered in this guide to an increasingly popular French region are Nantes, Pornic, La Rochelle and the Île de Ré. Written by Angela Bird, who for almost 50 years has owned a home in the region, and award-winning travel writer Murray Stewart, and updated by adventurer Ed Cooper, Bradts guidebook offers comprehensive coverage of a beguiling area, detailing everything from family holidays to walks, cycling, local cuisine and history. The Vendée offers all the benefits of a destination that is well established with both French and British visitors, with easy access and short drive times via UK ferries adding to its appeal. Popular with campers and self-caterers, the Vendées sunny climate and 140km of sandy beaches, plus its tree-lined canals and open marshland, make for a diverse outdoor playground. Bradts The Vendée includes suggestions for walks and the best places for birdwatching. This goes hand in hand with a new regional policy of promoting recreation premised on nature and wellbeing. Thanks to the authors rich personal history with the area, the guide also reveals the quirks and themes which give the Vendée its own distinct character, as well as straying just beyond the areas boundaries to incorporate La Rochelle and Nantes, both entry points for those arriving by air and both offering urban distractions for the occasional rainy day. Although the region has no true cities, or even large towns, the guide includes details of the many local museums which provide easily accessible insights into the bloody history of an area which has, at times, been central to the evolution of modern-day France. New elements in this edition include expanded coverage of architecture, the Vendée sections of a 1,300-km Atlantic cycle route (La Vélodysée), Frances most dazzling son et lumière show and new restaurant listings that reflect the regions growing reputation for wine, collection of Michelin-starred eateries and long history as a paradise for seafood lovers. AUTHORS: During a camping holiday in France in 1970, Angela Bird idly scanned an estate agents window (as you do) and noticed a whole house on sale for £1,200. She and her husband jettisoned their aged tent, equipped themselves with a hefty DIY book, and began a 50-year love affair with the Vendée. Although her children longed to holiday on Vendée beaches, Bird couldnt sit still for long so would drag them to markets, menhirs, castles and windmills. (Her kids learned to dread the words: While were here, why dont we just visit...?) In 1995 Bird wrote her first guidebook to the area, the bestselling English Family Guide to the Vendée, which ran to four editions before transferring to the Bradt stable. For four years she was also Vendée correspondent for the French publication Côté Ouest. In the UK, she has worked for The Illustrated London News and Country Living magazines. Murray Stewart spent two months living and travelling around the Vendée and its borders, researching and writing the first edition of Bradts guidebook to the area. When his legs were significantly younger, he enjoyed cycling holidays on the flat coastal terrain along the Vendean Atlantic coast. Murray wrote Bradts Basque Country and Navarre: France and Spain, which won the British Guild of Travel Writers Best Travel Guidebook of 2016. He has also updated Bradt guidebooks to North Cyprus, Cape Verde and the Azores. Murray has written for national travel magazines and online publications, and produced copy for French tourist boards and hotels. A near-fluent French speaker, he spends part of the year living in the Minervois in southern France. Edward Cooper is an award-winning researcher who holds a Masters in International Relations from the University of Cambridge. After working as a paramedic in South African townships and kayaking across the North Sea, he joined Sir Ranulph Fiennes team on the Coldest Journey expedition to Antarctica, then led the Haig-Thomas expedition in 2015. Cooper has served as a reservist with the Honourable Artillery Company and worked as a consultant to films about remote places. He sits on the board of the Scientific Exploration Society, which supports the next generation of explorers. He has travelled and worked extensively across the world including in the Arctic, Antarctic, South America, Eastern Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Edward has written extensively about his travels, including several articles on the Arctic in The Telegraph and a book The Inuit Way about Greenland and the Canadian Arctic archipelago. 50 colour photographs, 20 maps Author Biography During a camping holiday in France in 1970, Angela Bird idly scanned an estate agents window (as you do) and noticed a whole house on sale for £1,200. She and her husband jettisoned their aged tent, equipped themselves with a hefty DIY book, and began a 50-year love affair with the Vendée. Although her children longed to holiday on Vendée beaches, Bird couldnt sit still for long so would drag them to markets, menhirs, castles and windmills. (Her kids learned to dread the words: While were here, why dont we just visit.?) In 1995 Bird wrote her first guidebook to the area, the bestselling English Family Guide to the Vendée, which ran to four editions before transferring to the Bradt stable. For four years she was also Vendée correspondent for the French publication Côté Ouest. In the UK, she has worked for The Illustrated London News and Country Living magazines.Murray Stewart spent two months living and travelling around the Vendée and its borders, researching and writing the first edition of Bradts guidebook to the area. When his legs were significantly younger, he enjoyed cycling holidays on the flat coastal terrain along the Vendean Atlantic coast. Murray wrote Bradts Basque Country and Navarre: France and Spain, which won the British Guild of Travel Writers Best Travel Guidebook of 2016. He is an experienced guidebook author, having also written Bradts Basque Country and Navarre: France and Spain (which won the British Guild of Travel Writers Best Travel Guidebook of 2016) and updated Bradt guidebooks to North Cyprus, Cape Verde and the Azores. He has written for national travel magazines and online publications, and produced copy for French tourist boards and hotels. A near-fluent French speaker, he spends part of the year living in the Minervois in southern France. Details ISBN 1804692212 ISBN-13 9781804692219 Title The Vende Author Angela Bird, Murray Stewart Format Paperback Year 2024 Pages 272 Publisher Bradt Travel Guides GE_Item_ID:159976274; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. 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