Inspired Traveller’s Guides: Literary Places takes you on an
enlightening journey through the key locations of literature’s best
and brightest authors, movements and moments – brought to life
through comprehensively researched text and stunning hand-drawn
artwork. Travel journalist Sarah Baxter provides comprehensive and
atmospheric outlines of the history and culture of 25 literary places
around the globe, as well as how they intersect with the lives of the
authors and the works that make them significant. Full-page colour
illustrations instantly transport you to each location. You’ll find
that these places are not just backdrops to the tales told, but
characters in their own right. Travel to the sun-scorched plains of
Don Quixote’s La Mancha, roam the wild Yorkshire moors with Cathy
and Heathcliff or view Central Park through the eyes of J.D.
Salinger’s antihero. Explore the lush and languid backwaters of
Arundhati Roy’s Kerala, the imposing precipice of Joan Lindsay’s
Hanging Rock and the labyrinthine streets and sewers of Victor
Hugo’s Paris. Featured locations: Paris, Les Miserables Dublin,
Ulysses Florence, A Room with a View Naples, My Brilliant Friend
Berlin, Berlin Alexanderplatz Nordland, Growth of the Soil St
Petersburg, Crime and Punishment Sierra de Guadarrama, For Whom the
Bell Tolls La Mancha, Don Quixote Davos, The Magic Mountain Bath,
Northanger Abbey and Persuasion London, Oliver Twist Yorkshire
Moors, Wuthering Heights Cairo, Palace Walk Soweto, Burger's Daughter
Kerala, The God of Small Things Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City), The Quiet
American Kabul, The Kite Runner Hanging Rock, Picnic at Hanging Rock
New York, The Catcher in the Rye Monterey, Cannery Row Mississippi
River, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Monroeville, To Kill a
Mockingbird Cartagena, Love in the Time of Cholera Chile, The House of
the Spirits Delve into this book to discover some of the world’s
most fascinating literary places and the novels that celebrate them.
Each book in the Inspired Traveller's Guides series offers readers a
fascinating, informative and charmingly illustrated guide to
must-visit destinations round the globe. Also from this series,
explore intriguing: Artistic Places (March 2021), Spiritual Places,
Hidden Places and Mystical Places.
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ISBN
9781781318119
Publisert
2019
Utgiver
Quarto Publishing Group USA
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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