If you want to fit in with the French you'll have to know how to deal with louche waiters, what you're really eating when you're dining on escargots and, of course, how to convey absolute, shattering indifference with a single syllable. This book shows you all this and more.

From the author of Pardon My French and A Certain Je Ne Sais Quoi, this is the charming and hilariously funny story of one man's attempt to travel the entire length of the Seine by boat When Charles shows his friends the rowing boat he has spent the last six months building, he little realises the adventures that lie ahead. Several glasses of champagne later (it is New Year's Eve), he finds himself betting he will travel the entire length of the Seine from source to the sea in the next year and discover the true France. But the reality proves somewhat more difficult than he had expected. As...