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Glimpses of the Dordogne
by Michel Testut
translated by Peter Hackett

This book is a gentle, intimate and sometimes surprising journey through the Dordogne. It is a book of confidences about the countryside, customs, traditions, cuisine, people and daily life, gathered together by chance. Passport to a region, which since time immemorial, has exercised a very special fascination and influence.

This book whispers to us what we would like to hear and what we would like to say about the Dordogne if only we could find the words. Michel Testut. writer and columnist, an intensely local but at the same time worldly man, offers us, in this book, a tender and affectionate glimpse of the Dordogne that is both light-hearted and serious, sensitive yet full of good living. Poetic and humorous but thought- provoking also, he shares the intense pleasure of each moment with us. His gift is to evoke a sense of joy from almost nothing, a touch of optimism here, a dream perchance, there. His many sources of inspiration coupled with his clear style and his sense of poetry have led him to champion the cause of the Dordogne over tnany years. Peter Hackett, British and proud of it, has fallen madly in low with the Dordogne. For almost sixteen years he has been in total empathy with this part of France.

A sensitive translator, this cultivated man is a radio broadcaster, actor, historian and English teacher at Bordeaux University, Here in GLIMPSES OF THE DORDOGNE he has succeeded in finding just the right expressions that capture all the art of living, all the intellectual and emottonal pleasure contained in Michel Testut's work.