{"product_id":"the-opening-country-a-walk-through-france","title":"The Opening Country: A Walk Through France","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\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.\nThe 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.\nAlways 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.\nThe Opening Country is a book to fire the imagination - a call to travel slowly, to open eyes and ears, to discover and explore.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kitabay Jaipur","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51308573262047,"sku":"9781800461277_Kitabay Jaipur_21-E1","price":1000.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0302\/6927\/6291\/files\/f9c2828c9c00e53e9ec793f72389b2dc.jpg?v=1788248896","url":"https:\/\/kitabay.com\/en-sg\/products\/the-opening-country-a-walk-through-france","provider":"Kitabay","version":"1.0","type":"link"}