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Publication Date:
16 Mar 2021
Publisher:
Quarto Publishing PLC
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 5 - 7 Apr 2024
Description
Explore the diverse cultural and historical legacy of the world's greatest writers, artists and composers on foot.
This unique trans-continental culture trip around the world presents a series of inspiring walks, treks, and hikes that vary between easy one-hour strolls, half day trails, and multi-day expeditions for people who love a walking holiday and are looking for a more immersive experience. The book includes walks in easy to reach countryside areas, national parks, the wild, and the great cities of the world.
From an urban Street Art Walking Tour of East London to a traverse through the Georgian melting pot city of Tbilisi to a literary-themed Millennium Tour of Stieg Larsson's Stockholm, Discover the World in 500 Walks with Writers, Artists & Musicians has all the inspiration and information you need to plan your next walking adventure.
Contents
CONTENTS
Introduction includes:
How to use this book
Walks are organized by continent:
CH1 NORTH AMERICA
CH2 SOUTH & CENTRAL AMERICA
CH3 EUROPE & CAUCAUSAS
CH4 AFRICA
CH5 ASIA
CH6 AUSTRALASIA
EXAMPLE WALKS
LITERARY
Wander with William Wordsworth around Glencoyne Bay, the Lake District
Christopher Marlowe's idealised English countryside
Virginia Woolf's London
The White cliffs of Dover that inspired Matthew Arnold's great poem
Winnie the Pooh walks around Gill's Lap
Explore the rolling Dorset hills with Thomas Hardy
Wittgenstein's Cambridge
Explore the setting for Bram Stoker's Dracula in Whitby
The Dylan Thomas Trail in Lampeter, Aberaeron, and New Quay, Wales
James Joyce's Dublin
Robert Burns to Ian Rankin in Edinburgh
Paris by the Book: tour the haunts of writer's including Earnest Hemingway and Ezra Pound
Stockholm's Millennium Tour to celebrate Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Desolate Peak, Washington State's inspiration for Jack Kerouac
Visit De Smet, South Dakota, to walk in the world of Laura Ingalls Wilder
A literary Tour of Portland Oregon, including Portland Arts and Lectures series
Discover the Fireside Poets of 19th Century Boston, including Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Stroll through Greenwich Village to discover the haunts of Henry James and Edith Wharton
Follow Teju Cole around New York City
Re trace Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
Follow in the footsteps of Mark Twain in Hartford, Connecticut
Explore Kansas City Public Library in Missouri
Visit Oak Park, Illinois, during the weekend of July 17th to join Earnest Hemingway's 8K Running of the Bulls
Wander around Los Angeles after Jim Harrison
Pablo Neruda is the focus for a tour of Santiago, Chile
Explore Yukon Territory, Canada, and practice fire lighting, inspired by Jack London
ART THEMES
Explore the street art in Wynwood, Miami (second saturdays)
Join the Mural Challenge, Lexington, Kentucky
Claude Monet's Rouen, France
Gloucester Harbor, Massachusetts (Winslow Homer, William Morris Hunt)
The Hudson River, Thomas Cole
Rhode Island with Martin Johnson Heade
Look Down Yosemite Valley with Albert Bierstadt
New Mexico through the eyes of Georgia O'Keeffe
Birdspotting with John James Audubon
Horatio McCulloch's idealised Highlands, Scotland
Yorkshire with David Hockney
Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Recreate Richard Long's A Line made By Walking in the Wiltshire countryside
MUSICAL
Mendelssohn's Scotland and Hebrides
The hills of the Italian Riviera, inspiration to Edward Elgar
Franz Liszt's journey through Switzerland
Bryce Canyon, Utah, inspiration to Olivier Messiaen
The South Pole, inspiration to Vaughan Williams and Peter Maxwell Davies
Explore the Atlas Mountains, Algeria with Gustav Holst
Tosca's Rome
Beethoven's Vienna
Claudio Monteverdi in Venice
Ocmulgee River Heritage Trail, Macon, Georgia to commemorate Otis Redding
Visit the Joshua Tree, California, which inspired U2
See who's playing at Shrine of the Ages Auditorium
Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona
Go to the unique Moab Music Festival in the Arches and Canyonlands National Parks, Utah
Recreate Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights in Wiltshire
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