Café Oc: A Nomad’s Tales of Magic, Mystery, and Finding Home in the Dordogne of Southwestern France

Name: Café Oc: A Nomad’s Tales of Magic, Mystery, and Finding Home in the Dordogne of Southwestern France
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Beebe Bahrami

Nov 2016 · Shanti Arts Publishing

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Writer, anthropologist, and self-professing nomad Beebe Bahrami knows that walking and exploring are paramount to her sense of connection to the earth. One of her explorations took her to a small fishing village in northwestern Spain and a much-anticipated chance to walk once again but on new tributaries the pilgrimage route of the Camino de Santiago. But it was a side trip to Sarlat in southwestern France, a place called "the Frenchman's paradise" by author Henry Miller, that unexpectedly gave Bahrami much to explore and enjoy as the region worked its way into the author's heart. A travel narrative and memoir, Café Oc will delight readers with its tantalizing descriptions of French foods and wines, walks through the countryside, visits to the prehistoric painted and engraved caves, and the warm and welcoming people in the Dordogne region of France. It will also take them along a path of serendipity and magic, and a meditation into how we are pulled by the desire for home. Accompanied by photographs taken by the author, Café Oc is also a pictorial record of places, people, and events. Over time and several lengthy visits, Bahrami found a surprising desire to settle down, to leave her "tent poles anchored in place to that precious earth."

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Born and raised in the Colorado Rockies while traveling across three continents as a child to visit relatives in Iran, travel writer Beebe Bahrami was drawn to anthropology as an adult. This training immersed her deeply into the cultures, languages, peoples, prehistories, and histories of the Mediterranean world. It is in these geographies, especially of France and Spain, that she writes most, especially on travel, food and wine, the outdoors and nature, spirituality, archaeology, and cross-cultural themes. Passionate for trekking, for over two decades she also has walked and written extensively on numerous routes of the pilgrimage road, the Camino, through southern France and northern Spain.

Author of other travel books — The Spiritual Traveler Spain: A Guide to Sacred Sites and Pilgrim Routes, Historic Walking Guides Madrid, and Cafe Neandertal: Excavating Our Past in One of Europe’s Most Ancient Places — Beebe also has written for Wine Enthusiast, Archaeology, The Pennsylvania Gazette, Perceptive Traveler, Expedition, The Bark, Michelin Green Guides, and National Geographic books. Several of her essays have won awards in Travelers’ Tales’ annual travel writing contest.

Nomadic in temperament, it was nonetheless the southwest of France, with Sarlat and the Dordogne at the center, that called to Beebe to make it home. This journey is captured here, in Café Oc, and though she still is dedicated to exploring the world at the pace of the spirit, on foot, this is something delightfully supported by life in France.

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