Description
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 color 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.
Delve into this book to discover some of the world’s most fascinating literary places and the novels that celebrate them.
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 color 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.
Delve into this book to discover some of the world’s most fascinating literary places and the novels that celebrate them.
Review
Wow! What a fantastic book this is. Quite often when I read books I end up going onto Google maps to see the actual places - this book is a literary version of that and more. The paintings in the book alone are just worth buying this book in my opinion, they are just gorgeous.
Divided into chapters for each book with a painting setting the scene. Some of the books I have not read and now I want to read them. I often find that if a book is mentioned in a book I am reading I have to check it out, and often end up reading it. So imagine, this book contains so many lovely books that I now want to read based on the background this book supplies. Also the reverse now applies - places I want to visit! A couple of my favourite authors are also included in this book, Gabriel García Márquez and Isabelle Allende and it was good to find out more about those books.
Well written in an interesting and informed style - just the right amount of text to get the feel of the book, the place it's set and not feel either cheated it's too brief or too long you get bored.
A book to dip into again and again to read and just to admire those lovely paintings too.
I'm giving this book 5 out of 5 stars. My thanks to netgalley and Quarto Publishing Group - White Lion Publishing. The book is out on 5 March 2019.
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