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In the Vine Country

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Somerville and Ross wrote many travel books charting their experiences throughout Ireland and abroad.

In the Vine Country is an account of a tour through the Medoc county, where they discover the pleasures of harvest - a glass of mout, freshly trodden, and garlic kisses from their hostess.

Then to a grand chateau, where they establish themselves as 'Les Anglais pour rire' by their sorry attempts to speak French.

Mistresses of ironic wit and precise observation, this is Somerville and Ross at their most genial

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Vintage
0099426455 / 9780099426455
Paperback
04/10/2001
United Kingdom
English
237p. : ill.
20 cm
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Reprint. Originally published: London: W.H. Allen, 1893.