£15.99
Publication Date:
16 Mar 2021
Publisher:
Frances Lincoln
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Description
Explore the diverse cultural and historical legacy of the world's greatest writers, artists and composers on foot. This uniqueatrans-continental culture trip around the world presents aaseries 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.aFrom 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 LarssonOs Stockholm, Discover the World ina500 Walksawith Writers, Artists & Musiciansahas 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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