Café Oc: A Nomad's Tales of Magic, Mystery, and Finding Home in the Dordogne of Southwestern France - Softcover

Bahrami, Beebe

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1941830412 ISBN 13: 9781941830413

Publisher: Shanti Arts LLC, 2016

Synopsis

Writer, anthropologist, and self-professing nomad Beebe Bahrami knows that walking and exploring are paramount to her sense of connection to the earth. One of her explorations took her to a small fishing village in northwestern Spain and a much-anticipated chance to walk once again but on new tributaries the pilgrimage route of the Camino de Santiago. But it was a side trip to Sarlat in southwestern France, a place called "the Frenchman's paradise" by author Henry Miller, that unexpectedly gave Bahrami much to explore and enjoy as the region worked its way into the author's heart. A travel narrative and memoir, Café Oc will delight readers with its tantalizing descriptions of French foods and wines, walks through the countryside, visits to the prehistoric painted and engraved caves, and the warm and welcoming people in the Dordogne region of France. It will also take them along a path of serendipity and magic, and a meditation into how we are pulled by the desire for home. Accompanied by photographs taken by the author, Café Oc is also a pictorial record of places, people, and events. Over time and several lengthy visits, Bahrami found a surprising desire to settle down, to leave her "tent poles anchored in place to that precious earth."

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About the Author

Beebe Bahrami is a professional writer and anthropologist knownfor award-winning travel, memoir, archaeology, outdoors and adventure,food and wine, spiritual, humorous, and cross-cultural writing. Shehas written two travel memoirs set in France, Cafe Oc--A Nomad's Tales of Magic, Mystery, and Finding Home in the Dordogne of Southwestern France, and Cafe Neandertal--Excavating Our Past in One of Europe's Most Ancient Places. She is also author of the Camino guidebook, Moon Camino de Santiago, as well as The Spiritual Traveler Spain, and Historic Walking Guides Madrid. Her work appears in numerous publications, including BBC Travel, Archaeology, Wine Enthusiast, Fodors.com, the Pennsylvania Gazette, and The Bark, among others.

Edition details

• Publisher: Shanti Arts LLC
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1941830412
• ISBN 13: 9781941830413
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 338