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Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Stone & Story Trail: The Quiet Heart of the Plantagenet West. Book.

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Le Mans: The City Behind the Circuit. Book.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Seventeen centuries of history. One overlooked corner of France. Stop this time.Most people pass through Sarthe on their way to somewhere else. The autoroute carries them south towards the Loire, or west towards the Atlantic coast, and the department slides past the window unremarked. Stone & Story Trail: Sarthe is written for everyone who has done exactly that, and suspects, perhaps, that they missed something.They did.Hidden within the old quarter of Le Mans stand the most completely preserved Gallo-Roman city walls in the whole of northern Europe. They are not ruins. They are not fragments. They rise, in places, to their full Roman height, faced with the warm ochre and terracotta of their original decorative banding, the geometric friezes and polychrome inlays still legible after seventeen hundred years. Most visitors walk past them without understanding what they are looking at. This book changes that.Helen and David Oldham came to Sarthe originally to photograph a book cover. They stayed because the stories would not let them leave. Walking the circuit of the ancient walls, notebook in hand, they found themselves standing before one of the great overlooked monuments of the Roman west, and asking why so few people knew it was there. The answer, they discovered, had everything to do with familiarity, and nothing to do with merit.Stone & Story Trail: Sarthe follows the authors on foot through the layered history of a landscape that has been continuously inhabited, fought over, built upon, and adapted since well before the Romans arrived. The walls of Le Mans were not raised in crisis or panic. The decorative ambition of their construction tells a different story, one of civic confidence, of a prosperous city advertising its own importance to anyone who approached. Understanding that changes how you stand before them.The Plantagenet thread runs through everything. In 2002, the old quarter was renamed Cite Plantagenet, a deliberate act of historical reclamation. Within the circuit of these very walls, Henry II of England was born. The family that would shape the crowns of England and France, whose quarrels would echo from Canterbury to Aquitaine, began here, in this department most travellers treat as a corridor. Stone & Story Trail: Sarthe places Sarthe where it belongs, at the heart of the Angevin story rather than at its margins.The authors live near the region, in the neighbouring department of Mayenne, and that proximity gives the writing a quality no visiting journalist can manufacture. When they descend the Pans-de-Gorron staircase and recognise the Gorron granite in the fabric of a Roman wall as the same stone they see in the field boundaries of their own village, the observation carries real weight. The ancient and the personal collapse into each other, and the distance between a twenty-first-century reader and a fourth-century stonemason narrows to nothing.This is not a guidebook. There are no hotel recommendations, no star ratings, no suggested itineraries. Stone & Story Trail: Sarthe is narrative non-fiction, written to be read in an armchair as comfortably as it is carried in a coat pocket through the medieval streets it describes. The history is rigorous. The prose is unhurried. The sense of wonder is real but never performed.The walls have watched seventeen centuries pass. They show no sign of stopping. This book invites you to stop with them, and to look properly, perhaps for the first time.Ideal for readers of Robert Macfarlane, John Julius Norwich, and Simon Schama, and for anyone who loves France deeply enough to leave the obvious routes behind. The most complete Roman walls in northern Europe stand in Le Mans, overlooked by most. Stone & Story Trail: Sarthe uncovers their Plantagenet hist Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The whole world knows the name. Almost nobody knows the city. Le Mans is one of the great hidden histories of France, and this is the book that finally tells it.Every June, hundreds of thousands of people descend on Le Mans for the most famous motor race in the world. They park in fields, watch cars blur past at night, and leave without ever climbing the steps from the river. Behind them, on a limestone promontory above the Sarthe, sits one of the finest medieval cities in Europe: two thousand years of continuous history, Roman walls unique in the empire, a cathedral that contains the whole story of French Gothic architecture, and a dynastic connection to England that shaped the English-speaking world. Almost none of it appears in any English-language book.Helen and David Oldham, two British writers living in the Loire Valley, discovered this city by accident, arriving to visit a local office and stumbling upon a perfectly preserved medieval quarter they had never known existed, despite living an hour and a half away. That moment of astonishment became this book.What you will find in Le Mans: The City Behind the CircuitThe Plantagenet dynasty was born here in 1133. Henry II, Eleanor of Aquitaine's great husband and Thomas Becket's great enemy, was a Le Mans man. He watched his own birthplace burn from the Roman walls in 1189, cursing God, before fleeing south to die. His son Richard the Lionheart was conceived here. Richard's widow, Queen Berengaria, governed the city for thirty years and lies buried in its abbey still, the only English queen interred on French soil, her name almost entirely unknown to the nation whose crown she bore.The Roman walls that Henry defended remain standing. They are faced with polychrome chevrons and diamonds in red brick, white limestone, and dark schist, a decorative scheme found nowhere else in the Roman Empire. They glow above an almost always empty riverside path, one of the finest and least-visited sights in France.The cathedral of Saint-Julien holds a Romanesque nave of cave-like weight and authority, and, sixty metres further on, a Gothic choir of such luminous height that walking between them feels like passing from one century to another, from one theology to another, in a single stride.The bell-founding Bollee family, Le Mans citizens, built the world's first true passenger-carrying steam carriage in 1873 and drove it to Paris, collecting seventy-five speeding fines on the way. Their workshops later hosted Wilbur Wright, who made the first aeroplane flights in Europe in the fields outside the city in 1908. The 24 Hours of Le Mans was born from this same culture of mechanical audacity.A parricide case in 1933 brought Le Mans briefly and notoriously to the world's attention, inspiring works by Jean Genet, Simone de Beauvoir, and Jacques Lacan. The city shrugs it off, as it shrugs off most of what the world thinks it knows.Each chapter in this book combines narrative history with a practical walking route, placing the reader on the actual streets, courts, and riverbanks where these events unfolded. The authors have walked every route themselves, repeatedly, and write with the confidence of people who know a place rather than merely researching it.This is the first English-language book about Le Mans the city. It is a work of popular history, a walking companion, and an extended argument that one of the most famous place-names in the world is also one of the most thoroughly unexamined.For readers who love hidden histories of France, the Plantagenet world, medieval architecture, or simply the pleasure of knowing something that almost nobody else knows, Le Mans: The City Behind the Circuit is the essential companion, whether you are planning a visit, attending the r Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. La Mayenne vous attend. Vous n'avez fait que passer, jusqu'ici.Chaque annee, des milliers de voyageurs traversent la Mayenne sans s'arreter, presses de rejoindre la Bretagne, la Loire ou le Perigord. Ce livre est une invitation a changer de cap, a quitter l'autoroute, a descendre de voiture, et a decouvrir l'un des departements les plus meconnus, les plus beaux, et les plus riches de France.Mayenne Meconnue, La Riviere et le Hibou: Parcours a travers l'histoire, est a la fois un guide de voyage et un recit historique. David et Helen Oldham, Britanniques installes depuis des annees dans la commune de Colombiers-du-Plessis, ont parcouru le bocage mayennais, longe la riviere, fouille les archives et ecoute la terre raconter ses histoires. Le resultat est un livre que l'on lit chez soi avant de partir, que l'on emporte sur le terrain, et que l'on garde sur l'etagere en souvenir.Cinq mille ans d'histoire, dix itineraires a vivreLe livre est construit en dix chapitres autonomes, chacun etant a la fois un recit historique et un itineraire pratique realisable a pied, a velo, en voiture ou sur l'eau. Du Paleolithique aux marches du samedi, du passage des Romains a la Chouannerie, des toiles de lin de Laval a la vision de Pontmain, Mayenne Meconnue tisse une histoire continue du paysage et de ses habitants, des premieres mains qui ont trace des signes sur la roche il y a vingt-cinq mille ans aux mains du boulanger qui connait votre prenom.Le departement abrite les seules grottes ornees situees au nord de la Loire, a Saulges, un fait qui renverse des decennies d'idees recues sur la repartition de l'art parietal en France. Debout dans la Grotte Margot, a quelques centimetres de traces realises par des mains anatomiquement identiques aux notres, le temps s'abolit avec une discretion qui rend le vertige d'autant plus fort.Le regard de l'etranger qui est devenu habitantLes auteurs ecrivent en etrangers qui se sont faits adoptes, en observateurs patients que la familiarite n'a pas rendus aveugles. Leur regard remarque ce que la frequentation quotidienne finit par effacer: la lumiere particuliere du bocage en octobre, le hibou dans la haie au crepuscule, la maniere dont la riviere Mayenne a faconne non seulement le commerce et l'architecture, mais l'identite profonde du departement. Ce livre est, de leur propre aveu, une lettre de remerciement adressee a un lieu qui les a accueillis.La meme haie qui a abrite les Chouans au chapitre six dissimule les calvaires du chapitre cinq. La riviere qui a fait la fortune de Laval au chapitre quatre est celle que vous pouvez longer a velo au chapitre dix. Lire Mayenne Meconnue, c'est apprendre a lire le paysage comme un texte historique continu, couche par couche, siecle par siecle.Ce que vous trouverez dans ce livreMayenne Meconnue s'adresse aux curieux de toutes nationalites: aux habitants de la region qui souhaitent redecouvrir leur propre territoire, aux visiteurs venus de Grande-Bretagne ou d'Irlande qui debarquent a Saint-Malo ou a Caen et cherchent une raison de s'arreter, aux amateurs de voyage lent et de patrimoine discret qui savent que les departements oublies reservent souvent les plus grandes surprises.Pour les lecteurs qui ont aime les recits de Graham Robb sur la France profonde, les guides narratifs des editions Ouest-France, ou les essais de voyageurs amoureux de regions delaissees comme la Creuse, le Cantal ou l'Aveyron, Mayenne Meconnue offre exactement ce que ces livres promettent: une connaissance qui enrichit l'experience, et une experience qui enrichit la connaissance.La Mayenne n'est pas un departement que l'on traverse. C'est un departement que l'on decouvre, une fois qu Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The whole world knows the name. Almost nobody knows the city. Le Mans is one of the great hidden histories of France, and this is the book that finally tells it.Every June, hundreds of thousands of people descend on Le Mans for the most famous motor race in the world. They park in fields, watch cars blur past at night, and leave without ever climbing the steps from the river. Behind them, on a limestone promontory above the Sarthe, sits one of the finest medieval cities in Europe: two thousand years of continuous history, Roman walls unique in the empire, a cathedral that contains the whole story of French Gothic architecture, and a dynastic connection to England that shaped the English-speaking world. Almost none of it appears in any English-language book.Helen and David Oldham, two British writers living in the Loire Valley, discovered this city by accident, arriving to visit a local office and stumbling upon a perfectly preserved medieval quarter they had never known existed, despite living an hour and a half away. That moment of astonishment became this book.What you will find in Le Mans: The City Behind the CircuitThe Plantagenet dynasty was born here in 1133. Henry II, Eleanor of Aquitaine's great husband and Thomas Becket's great enemy, was a Le Mans man. He watched his own birthplace burn from the Roman walls in 1189, cursing God, before fleeing south to die. His son Richard the Lionheart was conceived here. Richard's widow, Queen Berengaria, governed the city for thirty years and lies buried in its abbey still, the only English queen interred on French soil, her name almost entirely unknown to the nation whose crown she bore.The Roman walls that Henry defended remain standing. They are faced with polychrome chevrons and diamonds in red brick, white limestone, and dark schist, a decorative scheme found nowhere else in the Roman Empire. They glow above an almost always empty riverside path, one of the finest and least-visited sights in France.The cathedral of Saint-Julien holds a Romanesque nave of cave-like weight and authority, and, sixty metres further on, a Gothic choir of such luminous height that walking between them feels like passing from one century to another, from one theology to another, in a single stride.The bell-founding Bollee family, Le Mans citizens, built the world's first true passenger-carrying steam carriage in 1873 and drove it to Paris, collecting seventy-five speeding fines on the way. Their workshops later hosted Wilbur Wright, who made the first aeroplane flights in Europe in the fields outside the city in 1908. The 24 Hours of Le Mans was born from this same culture of mechanical audacity.A parricide case in 1933 brought Le Mans briefly and notoriously to the world's attention, inspiring works by Jean Genet, Simone de Beauvoir, and Jacques Lacan. The city shrugs it off, as it shrugs off most of what the world thinks it knows.Each chapter in this book combines narrative history with a practical walking route, placing the reader on the actual streets, courts, and riverbanks where these events unfolded. The authors have walked every route themselves, repeatedly, and write with the confidence of people who know a place rather than merely researching it.This is the first English-language book about Le Mans the city. It is a work of popular history, a walking companion, and an extended argument that one of the most famous place-names in the world is also one of the most thoroughly unexamined.For readers who love hidden histories of France, the Plantagenet world, medieval architecture, or simply the pleasure of knowing something that almost nobody else knows, Le Mans: The City Behind the Circuit is the essential companion, whether you are planning a visit, at Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Seventeen centuries of history. One overlooked corner of France. Stop this time.Most people pass through Sarthe on their way to somewhere else. The autoroute carries them south towards the Loire, or west towards the Atlantic coast, and the department slides past the window unremarked. Stone & Story Trail: Sarthe is written for everyone who has done exactly that, and suspects, perhaps, that they missed something.They did.Hidden within the old quarter of Le Mans stand the most completely preserved Gallo-Roman city walls in the whole of northern Europe. They are not ruins. They are not fragments. They rise, in places, to their full Roman height, faced with the warm ochre and terracotta of their original decorative banding, the geometric friezes and polychrome inlays still legible after seventeen hundred years. Most visitors walk past them without understanding what they are looking at. This book changes that.Helen and David Oldham came to Sarthe originally to photograph a book cover. They stayed because the stories would not let them leave. Walking the circuit of the ancient walls, notebook in hand, they found themselves standing before one of the great overlooked monuments of the Roman west, and asking why so few people knew it was there. The answer, they discovered, had everything to do with familiarity, and nothing to do with merit.Stone & Story Trail: Sarthe follows the authors on foot through the layered history of a landscape that has been continuously inhabited, fought over, built upon, and adapted since well before the Romans arrived. The walls of Le Mans were not raised in crisis or panic. The decorative ambition of their construction tells a different story, one of civic confidence, of a prosperous city advertising its own importance to anyone who approached. Understanding that changes how you stand before them.The Plantagenet thread runs through everything. In 2002, the old quarter was renamed Cite Plantagenet, a deliberate act of historical reclamation. Within the circuit of these very walls, Henry II of England was born. The family that would shape the crowns of England and France, whose quarrels would echo from Canterbury to Aquitaine, began here, in this department most travellers treat as a corridor. Stone & Story Trail: Sarthe places Sarthe where it belongs, at the heart of the Angevin story rather than at its margins.The authors live near the region, in the neighbouring department of Mayenne, and that proximity gives the writing a quality no visiting journalist can manufacture. When they descend the Pans-de-Gorron staircase and recognise the Gorron granite in the fabric of a Roman wall as the same stone they see in the field boundaries of their own village, the observation carries real weight. The ancient and the personal collapse into each other, and the distance between a twenty-first-century reader and a fourth-century stonemason narrows to nothing.This is not a guidebook. There are no hotel recommendations, no star ratings, no suggested itineraries. Stone & Story Trail: Sarthe is narrative non-fiction, written to be read in an armchair as comfortably as it is carried in a coat pocket through the medieval streets it describes. The history is rigorous. The prose is unhurried. The sense of wonder is real but never performed.The walls have watched seventeen centuries pass. They show no sign of stopping. This book invites you to stop with them, and to look properly, perhaps for the first time.Ideal for readers of Robert Macfarlane, John Julius Norwich, and Simon Schama, and for anyone who loves France deeply enough to leave the obvious routes behind. The most complete Roman walls in northern Europe stand in Le Mans, overlooked by most. Stone & Story Trail: Sarthe uncovers their Pla Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Seventeen centuries of history. One overlooked corner of France. Stop this time.Most people pass through Sarthe on their way to somewhere else. The autoroute carries them south towards the Loire, or west towards the Atlantic coast, and the department slides past the window unremarked. Stone & Story Trail: Sarthe is written for everyone who has done exactly that, and suspects, perhaps, that they missed something.They did.Hidden within the old quarter of Le Mans stand the most completely preserved Gallo-Roman city walls in the whole of northern Europe. They are not ruins. They are not fragments. They rise, in places, to their full Roman height, faced with the warm ochre and terracotta of their original decorative banding, the geometric friezes and polychrome inlays still legible after seventeen hundred years. Most visitors walk past them without understanding what they are looking at. This book changes that.Helen and David Oldham came to Sarthe originally to photograph a book cover. They stayed because the stories would not let them leave. Walking the circuit of the ancient walls, notebook in hand, they found themselves standing before one of the great overlooked monuments of the Roman west, and asking why so few people knew it was there. The answer, they discovered, had everything to do with familiarity, and nothing to do with merit.Stone & Story Trail: Sarthe follows the authors on foot through the layered history of a landscape that has been continuously inhabited, fought over, built upon, and adapted since well before the Romans arrived. The walls of Le Mans were not raised in crisis or panic. The decorative ambition of their construction tells a different story, one of civic confidence, of a prosperous city advertising its own importance to anyone who approached. Understanding that changes how you stand before them.The Plantagenet thread runs through everything. In 2002, the old quarter was renamed Cite Plantagenet, a deliberate act of historical reclamation. Within the circuit of these very walls, Henry II of England was born. The family that would shape the crowns of England and France, whose quarrels would echo from Canterbury to Aquitaine, began here, in this department most travellers treat as a corridor. Stone & Story Trail: Sarthe places Sarthe where it belongs, at the heart of the Angevin story rather than at its margins.The authors live near the region, in the neighbouring department of Mayenne, and that proximity gives the writing a quality no visiting journalist can manufacture. When they descend the Pans-de-Gorron staircase and recognise the Gorron granite in the fabric of a Roman wall as the same stone they see in the field boundaries of their own village, the observation carries real weight. The ancient and the personal collapse into each other, and the distance between a twenty-first-century reader and a fourth-century stonemason narrows to nothing.This is not a guidebook. There are no hotel recommendations, no star ratings, no suggested itineraries. Stone & Story Trail: Sarthe is narrative non-fiction, written to be read in an armchair as comfortably as it is carried in a coat pocket through the medieval streets it describes. The history is rigorous. The prose is unhurried. The sense of wonder is real but never performed.The walls have watched seventeen centuries pass. They show no sign of stopping. This book invites you to stop with them, and to look properly, perhaps for the first time.Ideal for readers of Robert Macfarlane, John Julius Norwich, and Simon Schama, and for anyone who loves France deeply enough to leave the obvious routes behind. The most complete Roman walls in northern Europe stand in Le Mans, overlooked by most. Stone & Story Trail: Sarthe uncovers their Pla Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The whole world knows the name. Almost nobody knows the city. Le Mans is one of the great hidden histories of France, and this is the book that finally tells it.Every June, hundreds of thousands of people descend on Le Mans for the most famous motor race in the world. They park in fields, watch cars blur past at night, and leave without ever climbing the steps from the river. Behind them, on a limestone promontory above the Sarthe, sits one of the finest medieval cities in Europe: two thousand years of continuous history, Roman walls unique in the empire, a cathedral that contains the whole story of French Gothic architecture, and a dynastic connection to England that shaped the English-speaking world. Almost none of it appears in any English-language book.Helen and David Oldham, two British writers living in the Loire Valley, discovered this city by accident, arriving to visit a local office and stumbling upon a perfectly preserved medieval quarter they had never known existed, despite living an hour and a half away. That moment of astonishment became this book.What you will find in Le Mans: The City Behind the CircuitThe Plantagenet dynasty was born here in 1133. Henry II, Eleanor of Aquitaine's great husband and Thomas Becket's great enemy, was a Le Mans man. He watched his own birthplace burn from the Roman walls in 1189, cursing God, before fleeing south to die. His son Richard the Lionheart was conceived here. Richard's widow, Queen Berengaria, governed the city for thirty years and lies buried in its abbey still, the only English queen interred on French soil, her name almost entirely unknown to the nation whose crown she bore.The Roman walls that Henry defended remain standing. They are faced with polychrome chevrons and diamonds in red brick, white limestone, and dark schist, a decorative scheme found nowhere else in the Roman Empire. They glow above an almost always empty riverside path, one of the finest and least-visited sights in France.The cathedral of Saint-Julien holds a Romanesque nave of cave-like weight and authority, and, sixty metres further on, a Gothic choir of such luminous height that walking between them feels like passing from one century to another, from one theology to another, in a single stride.The bell-founding Bollee family, Le Mans citizens, built the world's first true passenger-carrying steam carriage in 1873 and drove it to Paris, collecting seventy-five speeding fines on the way. Their workshops later hosted Wilbur Wright, who made the first aeroplane flights in Europe in the fields outside the city in 1908. The 24 Hours of Le Mans was born from this same culture of mechanical audacity.A parricide case in 1933 brought Le Mans briefly and notoriously to the world's attention, inspiring works by Jean Genet, Simone de Beauvoir, and Jacques Lacan. The city shrugs it off, as it shrugs off most of what the world thinks it knows.Each chapter in this book combines narrative history with a practical walking route, placing the reader on the actual streets, courts, and riverbanks where these events unfolded. The authors have walked every route themselves, repeatedly, and write with the confidence of people who know a place rather than merely researching it.This is the first English-language book about Le Mans the city. It is a work of popular history, a walking companion, and an extended argument that one of the most famous place-names in the world is also one of the most thoroughly unexamined.For readers who love hidden histories of France, the Plantagenet world, medieval architecture, or simply the pleasure of knowing something that almost nobody else knows, Le Mans: The City Behind the Circuit is the essential companion, whether you are planning a visit, at Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

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