FRANCE ON FOOT:

France on Foot is, at its heart, an instruction manual on how to use France's 110,000-mile, off-road trail system to take a vacation on your own walking from village to village, hotel to hotel and restaurant to restaurant. It is not a conventional where-to-eat, where-to-stay, exactly-what-trail-to-take guidebook that might be out-of-date only months after publication.

Instead, as you'll see in the contents, on the critics page and in the sample chapter, the book explains in detail how to find good meals, how to find lodging, what equipment to buy, how to pack, what a walking vacation will cost, how to choose both the region and the trail and how to navigate that trail once your vacation has begun. France on Foot is not a standard carry-it-along guidebook; it is an instruction guide about walking in France that should be used and absorbed before you go.

In fact, France on Foot is—on purpose—too large and heavy to carry in your pack. This is a guidebook that is meant to be left at home!
– Bruce LeFavour, author