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A Perfect Mountain Lake
World Press Award-winng British photographer Geoff Tompkinson is lucky enough to reside for part of each year along the shore of Austria’s “perfect mountain lake” Hallstatt. If you’ve been fortunate...
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It’s World Book Day !
I’m certain that all of you bibliophiles know that today is UNESCO World Book and Copyright Day. Readers around the globe are celebrating with all manner of bookish events. My friends in the...
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As Important As The Eiffel Tower ?
Les Bouquinistes, the booksellers whose iconic green stalls have lined the River Seine in the heart of Paris for more than two hundred years, are campaigning to be recognized by UNESCO as a world...
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Primary Source
It’s now possible to read one of the oldest books of English literature in the world online.The Exeter Book is a 1oth century anthology of poetry in Old English and one of only four manuscript books...
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A National Icon
Regular visitors to TBTP know that I am very serious about coffee. I am so commited to drinking good coffee that I actually roast my own green coffee beans. When I travel, the first thing that I...
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Recognition At Last
Each day, nearly 12 million French consumers visit a bakery and leave with an iconic loaf of bread. Each year, French bakeries produce more than 6 billion baguettes. It is an international symbol...
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