The Writer's Journey - In the Footsteps of the Literary Greats

The Writer's Journey invites you to follow in the footsteps of some of the world's most famous authors on the travels that inspired their greatest works.

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Follow in the footsteps of some of the world's most famous authors on the journeys which inspired their greatest works in this beautiful illustrated atlas.

Some truly remarkable works of literature have been inspired by writers spending time away from their typical surroundings. From epic road trips and arduous treks into remote territories to cultural tours and sojourns in the finest hotels, this book explores 35 influential journeys taken by literary greats and reveals the repercussions of those travels on the authors' personal lives and the broader literary landscape.

Award-winning author Travis Elborough brings each of these trips to life with fascinating insights into the stories behind the creation of some of the world's most famous literary creations, including Dracula, Moby Dick, Murder on the Orient Express, Madame Bovary, The Talented Mr Ripley and Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.

From Herman Melville's first whaling voyage in 1841, fr om New York to Liverpool, to Jack Kerouac's on-the-road Odyssey, which is now an iconic drive, discover how these journeys imprinted themselves on some of the greatest literary minds of all time.

Complete with navigational notes, colour photographs and commissioned maps, the fresh insights within tell readers something new about the places, work and personalities of some of the world's greatest minds.

Inhaltsverzeichnis:

Introduction
Hans Christian Andersen Becomes a Novelist in Italy
Maya Angelou Loses Her Heart to Ghana
W.H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood Go to War
Jane Austen Gets a Whiff of Sea Air (and Seaweed) in Worthing
James Baldwin Falls for Paris in the Fall
Basho Takes the Narrow Road to the Deep North
Charles Baudelaire Fails to Make It to India
Elizabeth Bishop Is Bowled Over by Brazil
Heinrich Böll Is Enchanted by the Emerald Isle
Lewis Carroll Finds Another Wonderland in Russia
Agatha Christie Boards the Orient Express
Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens Are Far from Idle in Cumbria
Joseph Conrad Sees True Horror in the Congo
Isak Dinesen in and out of Africa
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Discovers the Perfect Place to Bury Sherlock Holmes
F. Scott Fitzgerald Bathes in the Light on the French Riviera
Gustave Flaubert Indulges Himself in the Orient
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Gets Lost in Italy
Graham Greene Learns to Love Life Again in Liberia
Hermann Hesse Goes East in Search of Enlightenment
Patricia Highsmith Spots a Likely Character in Positano
Jamaica and Haiti Cast a Spell on Zora Neale Hurston
Jack Kerouac Goes on the Road for the First Time
Jack London Pans for Gold in the Klondike
Federico García Lorca Takes a Bite of the Big Apple
Katherine Mansfield Mines Her Time at a German Spa for Stories
Herman Melville Sees the Watery Parts of the World
Alexandr Pushkin Convalesces in the Caucasus and the Crimea
J.K. Rowling Gets a Train of Thought on the Line from Manchester to London
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Crashes into the Headlines
Sam Selvon Sails to England
Bram Stoker Stakes Out Dracula in Whitby
Sylvia Townsend Warner Finds Poetry in the Essex Marshes
Mary Wollstonecraft Soothes a Broken Heart in Scandinavia
It's All Greek to Virginia Woolf
Selected Bibliography
Index
Picture Credits