France Travel on 12 Feb 2007
The French Alps
Walking Easy in the Italian & French Alps (Walking Guides)
Enjoy the wonderful summer walking trails found in the Alpine regions of Italy and France. Using this guide and its maps, you can explore beautiful foot paths through mountain meadows and hamlets. Choose routes starting from one of the seventeen base villages selected by the authors for their magnificent mountain locales, charm, availability of public transportation, and accommodations. Rated at one of three levels of ease (gentle, comfortable, and more challenging), each walk takes from two to four hours, excluding ‘take in the view’ breaks or picnics along the way.
Michelin the Green Guide French Alps (Michelin Green Guide: French Alps)
This tour book is more detailed than general books on France. It provides websites, small maps, small city maps, driving tours, excellent history of the towns, and recommended sight-seeing.
Michelin THE GREEN GUIDE French Alps, 1e (THE GREEN GUIDE)
This title in the acclaimed Michelin Green Guide series covers a vast mountainous region extending from Lake Geneva south to the Grand Canyon du Verdon, close to the Mediterranean. It is an area of wild natural beauty and striking contrasts from the snow-capped peaks, glaciers, forested slopes, rich mountain pastures and lakes of Savoie and Dauphine to the sunny valleys of Brianconnais and Queyras and the arid landscapes of Haute Provence dotted with picturesque hilltop villages and bathed in the unique Mediterranean light.