Is it possible to tell about Provence in one book? Mountains and vineyards, truffles and melons, traditions and legends, saints and beasts... Where to start, what to neglect? A serious author would probably focus on one thing and write a solid opus. This does not apply to Peter Mayle. Any information is credible only when it is obtained through personal experience, as the author believes. But it’s not just the search for a theme that drives him to wine cellars, olive farms and frog festivals. “I’m having fun along the way, no doubt about it,” Mail admits. Guided largely by his own curiosity and personal weaknesses, fluttering like a “frivolous bird” from branch to branch, from one question to another, Maile has assembled a very entertaining “collection of facts and facts” about Provence, a paradise on earth about which he writes with unfailing affection and humor.