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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...
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This book contain the biography and critical study of George Borrow and his life's works written by Edward Thomas. It was originally published in 1912 and is here being republished with a new introductory biography on the author. Edward Thomas was an accomplished writer and his work included essays, travelogues, topographical descriptions, reviews, critical studies and biographies. He earned himself a reputation as a respected critic and was widely...
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Follow in the footsteps of much-loved authors, including Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Mark Twain, Jack Kerouac, Jane Austen, and many more. For vacationers who crave meaningful trips and unusual locales, cue National Geographic's Novel Destinations-a guide for bibliophiles to more than 500 literary sites across the United States and Europe. Check into Hemingway's favorite hotel in Sun Valley, or stroll about Bath's Royal Crescent...
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Combine the wild waters of the Mississippi River and wordsmith Mark Twain, and what have you got? Some of the most famous and familiar literary works in American history, including The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Gilded Age, and Life on the Mississippi. Twain spent the first half of his life on and around the river, from his boyhood home in Hannibal, Missouri, to his years as a steamboat pilot, during which he...
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Immortalized as Dean Moriarty by Jack Kerouac in his epic novel, On the Road, Neal Cassady was infamous for his unstoppable energy and his overwhelming charm, his savvy hustle and his devil-may-care attitude. A treasured friend and traveling companion of Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and Ken Kesey, to name just some of his cohorts on the beatnik path, Cassady lived life to the fullest, ready for inspiration at any turn.
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Anna Quindlen first visited London from a chair in her suburban Philadelphia home--in one of her beloved childhood mystery novels. She has been back to London countless times since, through the pages of books and in person, and now, in Imagined London, she takes her own readers on a tour of this greatest of literary cities.
While New York, Paris, and Dublin are also vividly portrayed in fiction, it is London, Quindlen argues, that has always...
While New York, Paris, and Dublin are also vividly portrayed in fiction, it is London, Quindlen argues, that has always...
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“Rooms of Their Own” travels around the world examining the unique spaces, habits and rituals in which famous writers created their most notable works.
The perennial question asked of all authors is, 'How do you write?'. What do they require of their room or desk? Do they have favourite pens, paper or typewriters? And have they found the perfect daily routine to channel their creativity? Crossing centuries, continents and genres, Alex Johnson...
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Nelson Algren's two travel writing books describe his journeys through the seamier sides of great American cities and the international social and political landscapes of the mid-1960s. Algren at Sea brings them together in one volume.
Notes from a Sea Diary offers one of the most remarkable appraisals of Ernest Hemingway ever written. Aboard the freighter Malaysia Mail, Algren ponders his personal encounter with Hemingway in Cuba and the values...
9) Ernest's Way
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Ernest Hemingway, the Nobel Prize winning author, was known as much for his prose as for his travels to exotic locales, his gusto and charm created excitement wherever he went. In Ernest's Way, we follow Cristen around the globe to the places he lived, wrote, fought, drank, fished, ran with the bulls and held court with T.S. Elliot, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Pablo Picasso, Gertrude Stein and many other influential writers, artists and intellectuals of...
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“The Traces” is a ranging inquiry into the seductions of memory and travel, the fragile paradox of desire, and the art of making meaning from a life.
Mairead Small Stead's debut, “The Traces” is a work of memoir and criticism that explores the nature of happiness in art, literature, and philosophy, structured around a season spent in Italy and a reading of Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities.
Poised between plummeting depressions, the author...
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Extrait: "Né dans le quartier de la Petite Villette, — que desservent trois lignes d'omnibus, — père de famille, marié, naturellement, ayant trois enfants jumeaux, le plus jeune, pouvant être malade, j'éprouvais, en pleine canicule — 103 à l'ombre — le besoin d'expédier ma famille au bord de la mer."
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Les coulisses d'un exil qui aura vu naître de grandes œuvres.
Qui a vu l'archipel normand l'aime; qui l'a habité l'estime.
C'est là un noble petit peuple, grand par l'âme. Il a l'âme de la mer. Ces hommes des îles de la Manche sont une race à part. Ils gardent sur la grande terre on ne sait quelle suprématie; ils le prennent de haut avec les Anglais, disposés parfois à dédaigner ces trois ou quatre pots de fleurs dans cette pièce d'eau....
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Laissez-vous guider pour un merveilleux voyage dans la Russie du XIXe siècle
Théophile Gautier, (1811-1872), le « fils du soleil », s'émerveille devant les prestiges de la capitale des neiges qu'il appelle « l'Athènes du Nord ». Ébloui par les palais et les cathédrales aux teintes pastel, il glisse en traîneau sur la Perspective Nevski, pénètre dans le Palais d'Hiver et assiste à la bénédiction de la Néva en présence du tsar.
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14) Le Désert
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Extrait: "Cet écrit émane de l'humble, devant la miséricorde de son Dieu très haut, le séïd Omar, fils d'Edriss, en faveur de son ami Pierre Loti, pour le recommander aux chefs de toutes les tribus d'Arabie, à l'effet d'avoir pour lui des égards et de l'aider pendant son voyage au pays des Arabes, car il vénère l'islamisme et il est animé des meilleurs sentiments pour notre religion."
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Retour sur le parcours étonnant d'un grand écrivain
Georges Simenon est connu dans le monde entier comme le père de Maigret. Mais la silhouette légendaire du commissaire fait souvent oublier les autres romans. Ici, on a voulu voir en l'auteur un romancier, tout simplement, et s'interroger sur un écrivain véritable phénomène littéraire de notre siècle. Autrement dit : découvrir le vrai Simenon.
Une intéressante biographie littéraire...
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Immersion au cœur de l'Arabie et de sa civilisation éclatante !
Nombre d'explorateurs, et des plus célèbres, ont visité cette Arabie heureuse, ancien foyer d'une éclatante civilisation o le nom Sabéen a brillé au premier rang. C'est à Mariaba, Sabah, Mareb aujourd'hui, que régnait cette belle reine Belkis, l'admiratrice et l'amie de Salomon ; c'est sa capitale que Strabon nous dépeint comme une ville merveilleuse, toute pleine d'or,...
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"I realized I was alone and the trail had completely disappeared. I had no idea where it was, nor did I know where I had ventured off from it. I was lost, and I had backpacked enough to know this was not a good sign, not a good sign at all." In 1984, Sylvia Verange set off on a 500-mile journey across the Himalayas of Nepal. Hiking through the breathtaking scenery, remote mountain villages, and treacherous, freezing conditions, Verange's story lays...
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Since Thomas Paine and Benjamin Franklin put type to printing press, Philadelphia has been a haven and an inspiration for writers. Local essayist Agnes Repplier once shared a glass of whiskey with Walt Whitman, who frequently strolled Market Street. Gothic writers like Edgar Allan Poe and George Lippard plumbed the city's dark streets for material. In the twentieth century, Northern Liberties native John McIntyre found a backdrop for his gritty noir...
19) Baseball Love
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Bowering's life in the game unfolds in a picaresque memoir of the storied ballparks of the poet's youthful dreams.
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See through the eyes of the Brontës as you immerse yourself in their lives and landscapes, wandering the very same paths they each would have walked in search of the inspiration behind their novels and poetry. An 'imaginative and elegant trek through the landscape of the Brontës' Grazia In his journey to get closer to the Brontës, award-winning author Michael Stewart began walking the historic paths they trod while writing their most famous works....
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