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Une végétation luxuriante entoure le voyageur. Pervenches d¿azur, campanules de pourpre, feuilles vert tendre aux nervures roses, mousses et dentelures des fougères arborescentes, corolles capricieuses des orchidées, autant de fleurs et de rameaux, autant de couleurs et de formes. Les gouttes de résine dorée suintent sur les troncs rugueux ; des lianes inextricables grimpent aux arbres séculaires, étreignant de leurs spires puissantes l¿écorce lisse ou les fûts noirâtres des arbres. Au-dessus du sentier, s¿élève un dôme de verdure impénétrable au soleil, plein d¿humidité et de fraîcheur. Le relief du sol est très accentué : on monte d¿interminables lacets, on descend des pentes abruptes, on contourne d¿énormes blocs erratiques, on franchit à gué d¿impétueux torrents. Une continuelle pénombre rend le paysage encore plus calme et plus mystérieux. Puis brusquement la voûte s¿éclaire, les arbres deviennent plus petits et plus rares, et le soleil se montre. On a traversé la forêt et descendu la falaise. On n¿est plus qüà 600 mètres d¿altitude.

" «Je ne suis nullement l'intellectuel qui descend et condescend au peuple. Je suis peuple.» En ces termes d'une orgueilleuse modestie, Péguy situe exactement ses origines d'où lui vinrent, pour une large part, son originalité et sa force. Les vignerons et les bûcherons que sont ses ancêtres avaient marqué l'écrivain d'uneempreinte indélébile. Paysan, il l'était jusqu'aux moelles. Il en avait la solidité et l'âpreté, la malice et la méfiance, voire l'allure.Il s'en est fallu de peu, de bien peu, lui-même l'a conté quelque part avec comme un tremblement rétrospectif, qu'il ne manquât sa voie et ignorât à jamais les délices des humanités. De l'école primaire on l'avait aiguillé vers l'école professionnelle quand un pédagogue de sens et de c¿ur auquel Péguy en garda une infinie reconnaissance lui ouvrit les portes du lycée de sa ville natale.Il quitta Orléans pour aller à Sainte-Barbe et de là à l'École normale. Il n'y passa point les trois années réglementaires. La première terminée, il demanda un congé.Péguy avait la hâte de l'action. Il possédait l'âme d'un chef, d'un entraîneur d'hommes. Ses camarades, ses amis, sentaient son autorité, l'acceptaient, la réclamaient."

Avant de commencer la lecture d¿un voyage, on aime généralement à connaître ; par qui il a été entrepris, quels en ont été les motifs et quel but on se proposa en en publiant la relation. Ces notions préliminaires aident à l¿intelligence des faits, donnent aux assertions une autorité proportionnée à l¿opportunité des circonstances dans lesquelles s¿est trouvé l¿observateur, et fixent presque toujours l¿opinion du lecteur.Puissent celles qui suivent créer une prévention qui me soit Favorable ! La passion des voyages, qui m¿avait fait quitter à l¿âge de 20 ans ma patrie et ma famille, et qui m¿avait successivement conduit des côtes de l¿Amérique septentrionale aux rivages de la Méditerranée et dans diverses parties de la mer des Indes, me rendait insupportable la longue inaction où quelques affaires me retenaient dans les deux îles de Maurice et de Bourbon. Je désirais surtout visiter Madagascar, cette grande île sur laquelle on a tant écrit, qui est fréquentée depuis si longtemps par les Européens, qui en est si peu connue encore, et dont l¿intérieur vient enfin d¿être ouvert à la constance britannique.

Bienvenue dans le monde enchanteur de GOÛTS ET CONTES D'ÉCOSSE, un voyage culinaire qui transcende l'ordinaire et vous plonge dans le patrimoine riche et savoureux de Calédonie. Dans ce livre de cuisine, nous embarquons pour une expédition gastronomique à travers les magnifiques paysages et les tapisseries culturelles de l'Écosse, où chaque plat raconte une histoire et chaque bouchée est une célébration de la tradition, de la saveur et de l'esprit des Highlands.En tournant les pages, imaginez les montagnes couvertes de brume, les vastes lochs et les collines qui inspirent le coeur et l'âme de la cuisine écossaise. GOÛTS ET CONTES D'ÉCOSSE est plus qu'un recueil de recettes ; c'est un portail vers le coeur d'une nation, où les traditions culinaires sont tissées dans le tissu de la vie quotidienne. Rejoignez-nous pour explorer les ingrédients uniques, les techniques ancestrales et les histoires derrière 100 délicieuses recettes qui mettent en valeur la diversité et la profondeur de la gastronomie écossaise.De la chaleur tourbée d'un bon scotch au confort copieux de plats traditionnels comme le haggis et les sablés, chaque recette est un chapitre de l'histoire de l'héritage culinaire écossais. Que vous soyez un chef chevronné ou un cuisinier amateur curieux, ce livre de cuisine vous invite à savourer l'essence de l'Écosse, une recette à la fois.Alors, que le voyage commence : un voyage à travers les goûts et les histoires qui définissent le patrimoine savoureux de Calédonie. Que votre cuisine soit remplie des arômes de bruyère, de la chaleur de l'hospitalité et de la joie que procure la découverte des délicieux secrets cachés dans les pages de cette exploration culinaire.

The fourteenth volume of the Correspondance générale contains over 400 letters dating from 1825 and 1826. As the reign of Charles X begins, Constant continues to work on De la religion, while engaging in the political struggles against the reactionary turn of domestic politics, thinking afresh about societal issues and supporting the Greeks in their fight for independence.

New from Bradt is the thoroughly updated fifth edition of Lille, the award-winning and critically acclaimed guidebook to this exciting, ever-changing and easily accessible city in Hauts-de-France - the ultimate destination for a city break. Lille's architecture blends the 16th-century cobbled streets typical of old Flanders and the imposing fortress and parks of Louis XIV's France with converted former factories now serving as modern cultural venues. Here history refuses to stand still, and the city has not stopped finding new ways to celebrate its traditions, routinely toasting contemporary innovations. One of France's leading centres for gastronomy, Lille constantly re-invents itself with ever more exciting places to eat - whether you share a sandwich with artists in a former post office building or seek out tomorrow's Michelin-starred chefs - plus new places to explore, relax and stay. Being elected European Capital of Culture in 2004 led to Lille becoming one of France's most cultural and artistic cities - and arguably its party capital too. With Bradt's Lille, dance a Sunday-night tango with strangers in a Renaissance cloister, or order onion soup at dawn. You can admire France's best art collection outside Paris, attend a biennial international arts festival or head for the amazing museums and sites in nearby towns, linked by an excellent metro and tram network. Alternatively, you might go shopping in Lille's famous discount designer stores or at its legendary kerbside flea markets. Or venture beyond the city to discover the patchwork of history that characterises northern France, from Henry V's battle of Agincourt to World War I trenches and the beaches of Dunkirk. New elements of this edition include a chapter on culture, featuring the Lille 3000 international arts festival; coverage of self-drive possibilities, food festivals, World War tourist destinations, and both new and expanded museums and art galleries; and updated or wholly new reviews of the best places to eat, drink and stay (the latter now including self-catering options). With easy Eurostar access from the UK (plus high-speed train links from other French cities, and Brussels), Lille is the perfect short-haul getaway - with Bradt's Lille guidebook the consummate companion.

New from Bradt is the thoroughly updated second edition of The Vendee, 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 Ile de Re. 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, Bradt's guidebook offers comprehensive coverage of a beguiling area, detailing everything from family holidays to walks, cycling, local cuisine and history. The Vendee 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 Vendee's sunny climate and 140 km of sandy beaches, plus its tree-lined canals and open marshland, make for a diverse outdoor playground. Bradt's The Vendee 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 Vendee its own distinct character, as well as straying just beyond the area's 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 of Bradt's The Vendee include expanded coverage of architecture, the Vendee sections of a 1,300-km Atlantic cycle route (La Velodysee), France's most dazzling son-et-lumiere show and new restaurant listings that reflect the region's growing reputation for wine, collection of Michelin-starred eateries and long history as a paradise for seafood-lovers.

The MacKinnon's Bride Missing Epilogue - please note, this is a not a stand-alone novel. It is a "super epilogue," written to complement The MacKinnon's Bride and is best read after reading the entire series. Eleven years later, Hugh FitzSimon is a broken man. He is forsaken, alone, a wretch left to wallow in his grief. A scrooge to rival Ebenezer, he is visited by the ghost of his dead wife, who has come to reveal what life has been, what it could be, and where it will end if the candle burns out before FitzSimon has made amends. Meantime, in the Highlands, the MacKinnon clan faces their darkest hour. With their village destroyed by fire, and winter on the way, how can they rally when whispers of war have already begun? A very unexpected "ghost" may help them find their way.For years fans have asked for a MacKinnon's Bride epilogue and here it is, a short story to lend a little cheer for the holidays.

"I go to Ian Seed's poetry whenever I need reminding of the possibilities or a good slap in the inspiration. A master of the prose poem and the unexpected lyric. There's a beautiful, painterly logic to these compositions and a perfect balance between the elevating magical and the crushingly disappointing. His narrators speak for all of us, at work, in transit, in family, memory, or continental cities. Grief-stricken, erotic, silly, embarrassed or baffled, but somehow determined to live 'joyously and seriously' against the inexplicable, the obligatory and the mundane at whatever damn cost. Night Window is shot through with melancholy, wit, absences and bookshops - it deserves legions of readers." -Luke Kennard "Exquisitely voiced and deeply beguiling, Night Window explores impermanence in uncanny, liminal and provocative poems. Often set in the transitory spaces of trains, buses, cafés, markets and trattorie, narrators confront their nostalgia and self-imposed exile in a series of threshold moments foregrounding 'obsession', 'unspeakable desire', erotic remembrance and quotidian encounters. The motif of fenestration heightens the fusion between neo-Gothic outsiderness and modernity's transcendent flaneurism in poems which are often mordantly humorous and sardonic. In self-reflexive, Calvino-esque moments, Seed reveals, 'I have to find a way / to free the text to yield its story' and reminds us, 'It takes a stranger to see the beauty'. Gertrude Stein once said Max Jacob had a 'poet soul'. A translator of Jacob's poetry, Ian Seed in Night Window, uncovers his own poet's soul and cements his reputation as one of the finest contemporary proponents of the prose poem form." -Cassandra Atherton Comments on previous books: "As a collection, The Underground Cabaret is more precise, more tightly structured than even its predecessors (which were themselves masterpieces of concision). It is compellingly readable, funny and at times filled with an eerie menace; all of which should appeal to the general reader. If there were any justice, it would be a bestseller." -Joe Darlington, The Manchester Review of Books. "In general, I tend to think of surrealist poetry as being grounded in a kind of contorted analogy, incongruent images welded together to create a kind of irrational logic, but Seed more or less eschews analogy. He shows us the world as it is, but it's not quite this world. All the elements seem quite familiar: parents, houses, streets, hotels, tourist attractions, partners and ex-partners, workplaces. However, they act and interact in ways that are disconcerting, just slightly off centre [...] The great strength of Seed's writing is that its apparent simplicity can encompass such multiple dimensions of reading." -Billy Mills, Elliptical Movements. "The Underground Cabaret is a series of sophisticated prose poems. The poems often give a surreal, dream-like picture of small incidents in charged, mysterious contexts. They are written with an easy elegance which underpins the surrealism and draws the reader into a world which feels real and whole, somehow. One of the blurb comments suggests that these pieces are actually about 'what it means to be human', and there is a lot of truth in that. In part, that sense is a result of Seed's skill as a writer, in part too, it is the element of embedded realism which gives the pieces their foundation; an air of normalcy that runs through even the 'weirdest' of the pieces." -Ian Pople, PN Review.

In his fourth collection from Shearsman Books, Alasdair Paterson ranges as widely as ever - from the bewilderments of a Scottish childhood to the mixed messages of later life, from gnarly nature notes to an A-Z of lines salvaged from lost Russian novels. The spirit of Mercury - bringer of messages, patron of tricksters, keeper and crosser of boundaries - hovers invisibly and a tad unreliably overhead.Critical responses - "You can take the boy out of Leith but seemingly you can't stop him writing poems about it. Take a telling, pal!" -Leith Literary Gazette"In this latest brazen provocation, the great Russian literary tradition is alphabetically disrespected. Needless to say, there will be consequences..." -Kamchatka Hints and Tips"Here's a city boy's take on the glories of the natural world. On the evidence of this, we have to ask: Mr Paterson, did you ever stand in a field of cows with the wind in your face?" -Forfar Farmer

Immerse in Irish culture with this book, an inspiring mix of songs, stories, poems, and more. Ideal for bedtime reading or travel. A true gem for those who value Ireland's rich heritage.

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Sanyu: His Life and Works in Oil traces the life of theChinese artist (1895-1966) from his early years in Chinaand Japan, to his artistic experimentation and developmentin Paris and New York, ending in his tragic death,impoverished and forgotten. Today, however, Sanyu is oneof the most coveted Chinese modern artists. An examinationof his life reveals that it was precisely the polaritiesand tensions he experienced that spurred him to create aunique pictorial language that so dynamically integratedthe spirit of Western modernity with centuries-old establishedChinese traditions. Sanyu metamorphosed froma Chinese artist of the modern period to a modernistwith Chinese cultural roots. These intersecting dynamicsresulted in a hybridization previously unseen.Featuring examples of his works of all genres and drawingon a wealth of archival material as well as personal storiesrecounted by people who knew Sanyu, this biography is themost comprehensive record of Sanyu's life to date.

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The last book in the trilogy begun by Jennifer Worth's New York Times bestseller and the basis for the PBS series Call the MidwifeWhen twenty-two-year-old Jennifer Worth, from a comfortable middle-class upbringing, went to work as a midwife in the poorest section of postwar London, she not only delivered hundreds of babies and touched many lives, she also became the neighborhood's most vivid chronicler. Call the Midwife: Farewell to the East End is the last book in Worth's memoir trilogy, which the Times Literary Supplement described as "powerful stories with sweet charm and controlled outrage" in the face of dire circumstances.Here, at last, is the full story of Chummy's delightful courtship and wedding. We also meet Megan'mave, identical twins who share a browbeaten husband, and return to Sister Monica Joan, who is in top eccentric form. As in Worth's first two books, Call the Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times and Call the Midwife: Shadows of the Workhouse, the vividly portrayed denizens of a postwar East End contend with the trials of extreme poverty?unsanitary conditions, hunger, and disease?and find surprising ways to thrive in their tightly knit community.A rich portrait of a bygone era of comradeship and midwifery populated by unforgettable characters, Call the Midwife: Farewell to the East End will appeal to readers of Frank McCourt, Katherine Boo, and James Herriot, as well as to the fans of the acclaimed PBS show based on the trilogy.