Lonely Planet the Loire
Edition: 2nd edition
Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications
Published: May 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781864503586
Subjects: Travel & holiday guides; Travel; Travel - Foreign; France; Europe - France; Europe - General
First sentence: The Loire Valley has been inhabited since the Middle Palaeolithic period (about 90,000 to 40,000 BC), when Neanderthal people (thought to be early representatives of Homo sapiens) hunted animals, made crude flake tools and paddled along the River Loire in hollowed-out tree trunks.