About this title: The author of the bestselling "Under the Tuscan Sun" expands her horizons to immerse herself--and her readers--in the sights, aromas, and treasures of 12 new special places, in this illuminating and passionate book that is also a celebration of the allure of travel.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Broadway Books
Date Published: 03/2006
ISBN-13:9780767910057ISBN:0767910052
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 420 p. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Broadway Books
Date Published: 03/2006
ISBN-13:9780767910057ISBN:0767910052
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 420 p. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Broadway
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780767910064ISBN:0767910060
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Broadway Books
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780739469354ISBN:0739469355
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Broadway
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780767910057ISBN:0767910052
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"I did not read this entire book. I read the first 50 pages or so and found myself rather bored. Again, I think I'm comparing the travel books I read to Eat, Pray, Love which is obviously so much more than a travel book. This particular book I got because I love anything and everything about the Greek Islands, especially Santorini. So when I realized I was bored with the book, I skipped forward to the Greek Islands. Again, rather bored but then came Santorini ... 2 paragraphs is all it got!!!! She has the Santorini churches on the cover of the book. The book has 417 pages and Santorini gets 2 paragraphs that don't even take up 1 whole page...very, very disappointing!"
"When I saw this book was being published, I immediately put it on my must-read list. I ordered it and decided to make it my entree for summer reading. By nibbling on it and picking off pieces of it, I've managed to make it last for over a month. In many ways, it was a perfect summer read, for a person who couldn't travel herself. Mayes took me to places I've always wanted to go, Portugal, Spain, Greece, even Turkey and North Africa.
But the book annoyed me, too. Mayes seemed hypercritical, judgmental off-and-on about her accomodations and her meals. She jumped around while describing her setting so that I felt like I was looking at her world through the eye of a jerky video camera.
Yet she also wrote poetically at times, describing foods she ate and places she visited so beautifully that I felt I'd eaten, too, that I'd travelled with her. The last chapter is a wonderful summing up of the need to travel that could equally well apply to the need to read as well. Mayes reminds us of T.S. Eliot's idea that in voyaging, we come back to our beginnings and understand our own world for the first time. A good reason to travel. A good reason to read."
"As travelogues go, this was a pretty good book. I really enjoy the style of Francis Mayes, so I found this book particularly interesting. Although it is called A Year in the World, it doesn't take place all in one year, but who really cares. She went to a lot of great places in Western Europe. Some of my favorites were Greece, Turkey, Spain, Portugal, and Sicily. The way she & Ed settle down in each place is especially interesting, because they get to experience most of the places as if they were not tourists. I also like how they reach out to the locals to try and learn more about each place and what the people that actually live there do. I would recommend this book to people that love to travel, but make sure you are not expecting a guide book, because this is not a guide book. It is written about their experiences, and although they do name some places and restaurants that they enjoyed, it is not meant to guide you through each place."
"An Amazon review I wish I'd read before I bought this book summarized my opinion of Mayes' travel writing: the writer criticized the discrepancy between the title and the substance:
"A year spent unmoored -- from home and errands and work and the ties that bind -- would have yielded a very different sort of book from this. These trips -- house rentals, hotel stays, even a cruise -- represent a series of vacations, instead of the year-long quest that the title promises."
In short, it's neither a *year* in the world nor a year truly *in* the world - a series of vacations bookended in real life aren't truly a year in the world any more than cruises and four-star hotels are an honest way of experiencing another locale.
Mayes shows us "rich" travel, rich in the sense of expense and not experience -- time spent sampling hotels, food, art, all the finer things, but not time intermingling, exploring. I bought this book while becoming aware of the prickles of my own wanderlust and was very disappointed by how little Mayes seemed to fit her own descriptor of "passionate traveler," but then, our ideas of travel are different.
It's true that she writes beautifully, lyrically, but I'm not interested in what she has to say."
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