How can you tell about Provence in one book? Mountains and vineyards, truffles and melons, traditions and legends, saints and beasts... Where to start, how to neglect? A serious author would probably focus on one thing and compose a solid opus. That doesn't apply to Peter Mayle. Any information is credible only when it is obtained through personal experience, the author believes. But it's not just finding a theme that drives him to bodegas, olive farms and frog festivals. "Along the way, I have fun, I don't argue," Mail admits. Guided for the most part by his own curiosity and personal weaknesses, a "frivolous bird" fluttering from branch to branch, from one question to another, Mail collected a very entertaining "collection of facts and facts" about Provence, a paradise on earth, about which he writes with constant love and humor.