The French Pyrenees

“The French Pyrenees is a truly contemporary guide-book – a book to go to the French Pyrenees with, as both a day-to-day guide and a background reading.

John Sturrock’s research has all been done since 1985; so this is the Pyrenees as they are now. Covering the whole French side of the mountains, from Hendaye on the Bay of Biscay to Cerbère on the Mediterranean coast, the book is divided into distinct regions: the Basque Country and Béarn; the Central or High Pyrenees; and Rousillon or the Catalan Pyrenees. It is intended as a guide to those places that everyone ought to see – and indicates others that can decently be passed over. It picks out pleasing and dramatic landscapes, buildings of unusual merit, the towns and villages worth going into, the prehistoric sites for which the Pyrenees are famous.

John  Sturrock is the ideal travelling companion -knowledgeable, discriminating, alert and able to write with elegance and lucidity.’