Developed to meet the needs of today's car tourers, the suggested routes and detours in this guide have been devised to enable travellers to explore off the beaten track. Detailed area maps are supported by driving directions and route plans. The driving routes take in historic towns and picturesque areas; Roman, medieval and Renaissance buildings are among the highlights of this region. City and town guides feature Angers, Chartres, Le Mans and Orleans. It also offers a guide to the Sarthe and South Touraine as well as Chinon, Samur and the Upper Reaches.
Andrew Sanger is a travel writer and novelist who has lived and worked in several countries, including Greece, India, the USA and the Languedoc region of southern France. Andrew now lives in the New Forest, on England's south coast.
His six novels in print are Bella's Wish (2026, about love and friendship in old age); On Romford Road (2025, a 100-year-saga of two rival East London families who take different routes from poverty to riches); The J-Word (2009 and 2018, about secular Jewish identity); The Slave (2013, about human trafficking, freedom and lawlessness); Love (2015, a vivid tale of heartbreak on the hippy trail); and The Unknown Mrs Rosen (2020; about a former spy at the end of her life) .
Andrew is also the author of about forty travel guides, and co-author of many more, mainly on France and French regions, Ireland, the Canary Islands and Israel. His most recent travel books are pocket guides to Normandy (published by Footprint, 2013), and a new edition of Top Ten Dublin (Dorling Kindersley, 2020).
As a journalist, Andrew has contributed to a wide spectrum of print and online publications, including most UK national newspapers, and for ten years edited a travel magazine for French Railways.