Provence Guide Books

Recommended Provence guide books

I particularly like the Eyewitness Guides for their rich pictorial content. With excellent photography, 3-D mapping, and cutaway illustrations, they show you what the other guides can only tell you about.

Eyewitness Provence

Three reliable guidebooks are Rick Steves', Fodor's and my favourite, the Cadogan Guide, which tends to be more thoughtful and analytical than the others.

Rick Steves

Cadogan Guide

Fodor's

 

Walking in Provence Good guidebook for hiking in Provence. There are 42 walks of short and medium length with descriptions of the routes and maps to accompany them.

Michelin Map Provence Roadmap covering Provence, the French Riviera and the Alps.

Walking & Eating in Provence 40 walks through the landscape of Provence, combining natural beauty, historical interest and local cuisine, from multi-day adventures that are linked by train to short half-day excursions.

 

Have you thought about a Kindle?
Rather than pack a ton of books for your trip to Europe, you could get a Kindle , an electronic book reader that can download and store up to 3,500 books, as well as your usual newspapers or magazines. There are over 850,000 titles to choose from on Amazon. I was very impressed by the screen on the new Kindle, it is as easy to read as a book. The Kindle comes in two flavors, one with 3G and one without:

 

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