This guide provides many color photos of the Pyrenees & Gascony. Help is given on planning a vacation there, with ideas of what to do and where to go. Topics such as food, churches, villages etc. are covered. However, with so many photos this guide may not provide all the detail you want from a guide. I personally recommend it for its photos as to supplement another guide which presents more facts. The area of accommodations is not covered and this would have been invaluable.

It is very difficult to find guide books for this area. This one has lots of specifics. Information is given either by the area & village as well as by interest. There are maps of vineyards, museums, forests, food specialties and festivals.
It includes the large cities and details on the tiniest villages.
Andorra is also included.
We will be visiting this area soon and plan to keep this ready at all times.

Andorra is a great theatric work. From the first page you'll recognize the obvious WWII undertones of the Nazi terror against the Jews. This work is powerful, because, even as just the Reader, you feel like you're being dragged along with the events of the story - they are looming, unescapable, irresistable. You know what the end of the story will be long before you get there, but you keep dreading it, hoping that something will intervene to stave off the impending disaster. Reading this drama will give you a stark picture of the inevitability of events, which, once set into motion, become incapable of being stopped by anyone.

Peter Cameron's writing is consistently beautiful, and this novel is no exception - indeed it contains some of his finest writing. I was quickly lost in his Andorran town, and sometimes it took my breath away, because his writing is exquisite - clean, but never spare, simple but never dowdy. However, more than with his other novels, I thought he tried to hard to make the plot more important, and he just didn't need to. All the characters are enveloped in the most tantalising mysteries, but when these are revealed, there's something of an anticlimax, and then again, nothing is revealed of characters who are intriguing to the point of exasperation. It's a fabulous book and I don't want to be as mean as I am being, but I feel he just lets sensation win outover soul in the end, and I expect more of him.

This is a stunning book, and one I don't really recognize in most of the editorial or customer reviews posted here. By purposefully misnaming the book Andorra, the author seems to be telling us that the plot details are secondary...instead the focus is on is the attempts of the main character to maintain strict control over his new life, measuring everything and everyone around him. We slowly come to understand why he has done this, as we see the simplest of encounters cause his life to spin out of control. It's a testament to Cameron's writing that this doesn't quickly get tiring; instead the result is striking, with wonderful insights coming from each encounter. The writing is nimble and spare. A wonderful book...I found myself wanting to reread it as soon as I had finished it.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book and am now reading The Weekend which is quite different. Andorra is wonderful reading, a fairy tale that will appeal to the dreamer and escapist in us all. I love to tell people about the books I read and this book's ending does not allow that at all..so I suggest you pick it up, you won't be able to put it down and you will, I beleive become enchanted and captivated by its characters, setting and mood.Does anyone have a copy of Leap Year which is evidently out of print