Literary Places Av Sarah Baxter

<B><I>Inspired Traveller’s Guides: Literary Places</I> 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.</B><BR/><BR/> Travel journalist Sarah Baxter provides comprehensive and atmospheric outlines of the<B> history and culture of 25 literary places around the globe</B>, as well as how they intersect with the <B>lives of the authors</B> and the works that make them significant. <B>Full-page colour illustrations</B> 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.<BR/><BR/> 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 <B>J.D. Salinger</B>’s antihero. Explore the lush and languid backwaters of <B>Arundhati Roy</B>’s Kerala, the imposing precipice of <B>Joan Lindsay</B>’s Hanging Rock and the labyrinthine streets and sewers of <B>Victor Hugo</B>’s Paris.<BR/><BR/> Featured locations:<BR/> Paris, <I>Les Miserables</I><BR/> Dublin, <I>Ulysses</I><BR/> Florence, <I>A Room with a View</I><BR/> Naples, <I>My Brilliant Friend</I><BR/> Berlin, <I>Berlin Alexanderplatz</I><BR/> Nordland, <I>Growth of the Soil</I><BR/> St Petersburg, <I>Crime and Punishment</I><BR/> Sierra de Guadarrama, <I>For Whom the Bell Tolls</I><BR/> La Mancha, <I>Don Quixote</I><BR/> Davos, <I>The Magic Mountain</I><BR/> Bath, <I>Northanger Abbey and Persuasion </I><BR/> London, <I>Oliver Twist</I><BR/> Yorkshire Moors, <I>Wuthering Heights</I><BR/> Cairo, <I>Palace Walk</I><BR/> Soweto, <I>Burger's Daughter</I><BR/> Kerala, <I>The God of Small Things</I><BR/> Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City), <I>The Quiet American</I><BR/> Kabul, <I>The Kite Runner</I><BR/> Hanging Rock, <I>Picnic at Hanging Rock</I><BR/> New York, <I>The Catcher in the Rye</I><BR/> Monterey, <I>Cannery Row</I><BR/> Mississippi River, <I>Adventures of Huckleberry Finn</I><BR/> Monroeville, <I>To Kill a Mockingbird</I><BR/> Cartagena, <I>Love in the Time of Cholera</I><BR/> Chile, <I>The House of the Spirits</I><BR/><BR/> Delve into this book to discover some of the world’s most fascinating literary places and the novels that celebrate them.<BR/><BR/> Each book in the <B>Inspired Traveller's Guides series</B> offers readers a fascinating, informative and charmingly illustrated guide to must-visit destinations round the globe. Also from this series, explore intriguin <I>Artistic Places</I> (March 2021), <I>Spiritual Places</I>, <I>Hidden Places</I> and <I>Mystical Places</I>.