500 Walks with Writers, Artists and Musicians

With Writers, Artists and Musicians
Herausgeber: Stathers, Katherine

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Hiking routes and city strolls inspired by artists, writers, and composers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Quarto Publishing PLC
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 335778
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. März 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 175mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 1170g
• ISBN-13: 9780711252868
• ISBN-10: 0711252866
• Artikelnr.: 59354235

Inhaltsangabe

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