Literary Places (eBook)

Sarah Baxter (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
144 Seiten
White Lion Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-78131-811-9 (ISBN)

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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, Burgers 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 theInspired Travellers Guides seriesoffers 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.3.2019
• Reihe/Serie: Inspired Traveller's Guides
• Reihe/Serie: Inspired Traveller's Guides
• Illustrationen: Amy Grimes
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseberichte
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseführer
• Schlagworte: abstract art • alfred doblin • Architecture • Armchair • A Room with a View • around the globe • artistic places • Arundhati Roy • author • BAG • basket • Bath • Berlin • Bibliophile • books • Box • Bronte • brontes • bronte sisters • burger's daughter • Cairo • Cannery Row • Cartagena • catcher in the rye • Central Park • Cervantes • Charles Dickens • Chile • Christmas • Churches • cities from novels • Clients • Colour • Company • Crime and Punishment • Culture • Customer • Davos • Destinations • dickensian • Don Quixote • Dostoyevsky • Dublin • Elena Ferrante • Emily Bronte • Employee • Escape • escapism • Fiction • Florence • Forster • from home • Gabriel Garcia Marquez • getaway • Gift • gifts for bookworms • gifts for lovers of literature • God of Small Things • Graham Greene • hand drawn • Harper Lee • Hemingway • hidden places • Ho Chi Minh City • Holiday • house of the spirits • Huckleberry Finn • Ideas • Illustrated • Illustrations • Isabel Allende • items • James Joyce • Jane Austen • JD Salinger • joan lindsay • journey • Kabul • Kerala • Khaled Hosseini • kite runner • Knut Hamsun • La Mancha • Landmark • Les Miserables • Literary research • literary tour • literary travel guide • Locales • Locations • London • Love in the Time of Cholera • Magic Mountain • Mark Twain • Meditation • Mississippi River • Monroeville • Monterey • movements • My Brilliant Friend • mystical places • Nadine Gordimer • Naguib Mahfouz • Naples • New Hire • New York • Nordland • Northanger Abbey • Oliver Twist • palace walk • Paris • Persuasion • Picnic at Hanging Rock • places from literature • present • quiet american • Reading • Real • Renaissance • Saigon • Sierra de Guadarrama • Soweto • spiritual places • staycation • Steinbeck • Story • St Petersburg • summer vacation ideas • thank you • Thomas Mann • time periods • To Kill a Mockingbird • Travel • travel journalism • Treasures • Ulysses • Victor Hugo • virtual • writers • Wuthering Heights • yorkshire moors
• ISBN-10: 1-78131-811-5 / 1781318115
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78131-811-9 / 9781781318119