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Riviera
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Author : Jim Ring
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2011-04
Riviera written by Jim Ring and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04 with Riviera (France) categories.
The Riviera has inspired countless novelists and artists, attracted as much by its visitors as by its location (Somerset Maugham called it 'a sunny place for shady people'). But for the majority of the English, the Riviera was made famous by rumour and report: it was the scene of the romance of Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson; and, post-war, became the vacation spot of Hollywood starlets. But the Côte d'Azur has a long history of attracting foreign celebrities and royalty, since the seventeenth century, when it was a stopping point on the route south for aristocratic Grand Tourists. Later, English and Scottish invalids, among them Robert Louis Stevenson, followed doctors' orders and holidayed on the Riviera for their health. Jim Ring explores these origins and the developments that took place on the coast - the impact of rail travel, of war, of celebrity and of the English.'An entertaining survey . . . It is the ideal book to hide your smirk behind on the Promenade des Anglais as yet another roller-blading granny glides past in a leopard-sking thong.' Sunday TelegraphJim Ring's Riviera corrals an array of vignettes of the Côte d'Azur's most famous habitués from the Romans to the Rolling Stones . . . a stylish and pleasingly gossipy overview of the region's fluctuating fortunes.' Time Out'A highly readable history.' Guardian
Episode On The Riviera
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Author : Mack Reynolds
language : en
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Release Date : 2017-09-16
Episode On The Riviera written by Mack Reynolds and has been published by Wildside Press LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-16 with Fiction categories.
Steven Cogswell was being hunted on the Riviera. Between crooks and party girls, things are getting tough. Add his ex wife ... and beautiful Nadine (who may not be as innocent as she pretends) ... and Nadine's brute of an ex fiance, Gerald ... and you have a recipe for disaster!
Riviera Dreaming
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Author : Maureen Emerson
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2018-04-12
Riviera Dreaming written by Maureen Emerson and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-12 with History categories.
In 1926 Barry Dierks, a young American architect, arrived in Paris and fell in love with France... With his partner, an ex-officer in the British Army, he built a white, flat-roofed Modernist masterpiece that rested on the rocks below the Esterel, with views across the Mediterranean. They called it Le Trident. From the moment it was built, it captivated the Riviera. As commissions for more villas flooded in, Barry Dierks and Eric Sawyer, "those two charmers", flourished at the heart of Riviera society. Over the years, Dierks would design and build over 70 of the Riviera's most recognisable villas for clients ranging from Somerset Maugham's Villa Mauresque and Jack Warner's Villa Aujourd'hui to the Marquess of Cholmondeley's Villa Le Roc, and Maxine Elliott's Chateau de l'Horizon, later the home of Aly Khan and Rita Hayworth. Riviera Dreaming tells the dazzling story of the lives, loves and adventures that played out behind the walls of these glamorous houses and provides an unparalleled portrait of life on the Cote d'Azur at the height of the Jazz Age.
The Riviera
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Author : Edward Isaac Sparks
language : en
Publisher: London : J. & A. Churchill
Release Date : 1879
The Riviera written by Edward Isaac Sparks and has been published by London : J. & A. Churchill this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1879 with France categories.
Riviera Towns
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Author : Herbert Adams Gibbons
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1931
Riviera Towns written by Herbert Adams Gibbons and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1931 with Riviera categories.
A Book Of The Riviera
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Author : S. Baring-Gould
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2020-08-03
A Book Of The Riviera written by S. Baring-Gould and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-03 with Fiction categories.
Reproduction of the original: A Book of the Riviera by S. Baring-Gould
The English Riviera Fact Sheet
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Author : English Riviera Tourist Board
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
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French Riviera And Its Artists
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Author : John Baxter
language : en
Publisher: Museyon
Release Date : 2015-07-01
French Riviera And Its Artists written by John Baxter and has been published by Museyon this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-01 with Travel categories.
Get swept up in the glitz and glamour of the French Riviera as author and filmmaker John Baxter takes readers on a whirlwind tour through the star-studded cultural history of the Côte d'Azur that's sure to delight travelers, Francophiles, and culture lovers alike. Readers will discover the dramatic lives of the legendary artists, writers, actors, and politicians who frequented the world's most luxurious resort during its golden age. In 25 vivid chapters, Baxter introduces the iconic figures indelibly linked to the South of France—artist Henri Matisse, who lived in Nice for much of his life; F. Scott Fitzgerald, whose Riviera hosts inspired his controversial Tender is the Night; Coco Chanel, who made the Saint-Tropez tan an international fashion statement; and many more. Along the way, Baxter takes readers where few people ever get to go: the alluring world of the perfume industry, into the cars and casinos of Monte Carlo, behind-the-scenes at the Cannes Film Festival, to the villa where Picasso and Cocteau smoked opium, and to the hotel where Joseph Kennedy had an affair with Marlene Dietrich. Then maps and listings show travelers how these luminaries celebrated life and made art amid paradise.
Wintering In The Riviera
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Author : William Miller (of Edinburgh.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1881
Wintering In The Riviera written by William Miller (of Edinburgh.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1881 with Italy categories.
Riviera Nature Notes
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Author : George Edward Comerford Casey
language : en
Publisher: Signal Books
Release Date : 2004
Riviera Nature Notes written by George Edward Comerford Casey and has been published by Signal Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Nature categories.
The spread of the towns, the disforesting of the hills, and other causes are conspiring to destroy many of the conditions which made the Riviera of former days so happy a resort for the lovers of Nature. But there will always be much to observe and much to study in so favoured a region. Quirky, erudite and eminently readable, the fifty-four essays comprising Riviera Nature Notes give an astonishingly clear picture of plant and animal life in the South of France at the turn of the twentieth century--not to mention a fascinating insight into the social mores of the time. A hundred years later the book is as fresh, topical and inviting as when it was first published. Preferring to remain anonymous as a naturalist, not only out of modesty but to guard the integrity of his liturgical writings, its clergyman author speaks of olives and pines, myrtles and figs, mosquitoes and rare butterflies--to name but a few of his subjects--with such passion and verve as to bring the land from the Ligurian coastline to the Maritime Alps vividly alive. gardens at La Mortola, Italy and benefactor of the Royal Horticultural Society's sixty-acre estate at Wisley, a second edition incorporated photographs taken by the temperamental and extravagant heiress Ellen Wilmot, in many ways a greater figure in the plant world than her close contemporary Gertrude Jekyll. Our anonymous author moved in the best horticultural and botanical circles, wore his learning lightly, and unusually for the time, spoke to the common man and the general reader on equal terms. With an engaging, sometimes acerbic, always entertaining and informative voice speaking effortlessly across the years, he will once again garner admirers among nature lovers, gardeners and travellers alike.