500 Walks with Writers, Artists and Musicians

Herausgeber: Stathers, Ms. Katherine

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Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Quarto Publishing PLC
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 335778
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. März 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 175mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 1164g
• 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