French Impressions - The Dordogne River: from source to sea

Over the past 25 years, George East and his wife Donella have travelled coming up for a quarter of a million miles across France by car, bus, train, tram, bicycle, boat and even hot-air balloon. En route they have tarried in every region and department of this richly diverse country. More importantly, they have, by their rough calculation, eaten and drank at around 4,379 restaurants, bars, bistros and country inns. As the author admits, it has been a demanding pilgrimage, but he was more than prepared to take on the challenge and put on four stone in pursuit of culinary perfection.
Across the years, the Easts have written more than a million words in books, articles and blogs about their Gallic adventures, and collected an astonishing 3,000 traditional rural recipes. At the same time, George has registered his sometimes controversial and quirky but always entertaining impressions of the French regions and their denizens.

His latest unique mix of information, anecdote, opinion and recipes is French Impressions: The Dordogne River.
The book takes armchair travellers on an affectionate voyage along the banks of one of France’s most iconic rivers, starting half way up a dead volcano in the Auvergne region and ending three hundred miles later in the Gironde estuary. On their journey through five regions and six departments, the author examines the diverse cultures and communities, their sometimes turbulent history, and how the past informs the present in this deeply fascinating part of a great country.
If you want to know where there be underground dragons, saints with a golden touch and how the good burghers of Sarlat make cat litter from walnut shells, French Impressions: The Dordogne River is the book for you…
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