{"product_id":"9781800461277","title":"The Opening Country : A Walk Through France","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this journey of discovery, John Micklewright travels the slow way, on foot, on paths, tracks and byways from the Channel to the Alps - from the coast of Normandy to the flanks of Mont Blanc. The Opening Country is a beautifully written account of his progress through the French countryside, an evocative patchwork of landscape, nature, history, literature, film, and - drawing on his father's diaries that stretch back to the 1930s - of memoir. Always curious, absorbing all around him, ready on a whim to divert from his chosen route as he heads unhurriedly southwards. The natural world unfolds as spring turns to summer with surprises of bird song and butterflies, against a constant background of reminders of the economic and social story of rural France and of wars past. The result is an engrossing record of a classic long-distance walk through Britain's nearest continental neighbour.    The Opening Country is a book to fire the imagination - a call to travel slowly, to open eyes and ears, to discover and explore.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rye Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41185796456600,"sku":"9781800461277","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0064\/1368\/0730\/products\/9781800461277.jpg?v=1635020433","url":"https:\/\/ryebooks.co.uk\/products\/9781800461277","provider":"Rye Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}