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Book SynopsisThe 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.
Trade Review'This is a must read for lovers of literature, especially those with a lust for travel. But the book is much more than this in that it opens windows allowing the reader to view travel with fresh horizons. As Christie said, quoted in The Writer’s Journey, “Not until you travel alone do you realize how much the outside world will protect and befriend you.”
The Writer’s Journey can be your friend.' -- Travel Begins at 40
“As I prepare to head down to Devon to lead a writing retreat, this arrives. All about the journeys writers have taken, and how the travel has inspired them. Perfect!” -- Dan Thompson
“When writers step outside of their familiar surroundings, special things can often happen, as this collection charting the 35 routes that changed the lives and legacies of some literary giants, from Charles Dickens to Herman Melville, adroitly shows.” -- Wanderlust "Best Travel Books of 2022 so far"
Table of ContentsIntroduction
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
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