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This Crossbill Guide covers the Cevennes and Grands Causses which combined, form one of the wildest and most beautiful regions of France. This guide describes the flora fauna and natural history of this remarkable area.
Take a journey off the beaten path and discover the hidden gem that is the Lozère department in France, as presented in this travelog. Known as the "Roof of France", the Lozère is a breathtakingly beautiful region that boasts the ancient Gévaudan and the stunning Causses - towering limestone plateaus that offer a unique geological landscape. The plateau of the typical Causse is as wide as Dartmoor and as lofty as Helvellyn, a vast expanse of stony wasteland that blooms with wildflowers in the spring and is home to a people with a distinct language, physique, and primitive customs.
Excerpt from The Roof of France: Or the Causses of the Lozere It is upon this occasion my rare and happy privilege to introduce the reader to something absolutely new. How many English-speaking tourists have found their way to the Roof of France - in other words, the ancient Gevaudan, the romantic department of the Lozere? How many English - or for the matter of that French travellers either - have so much as heard of the Causses, those lofty tablelands of limestone, groups of a veritable archipelago, once an integral whole, now cleft asunder, forming the most picturesque gorges and magnificent defiles; offering contrasts of scenery as striking as they are sublime, and a phenomenon unique in...
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