Literary Places [Hardcover]

Inspired Traveller’s Guides: Literary Placestakes you on an enlightening journey through the key locations of literature’s best and brightest authors, movements and moments – brought to life through comprehensively researched text and stunning hand-drawn artwork.

Travel journalist Sarah Baxter provides comprehensive and atmospheric outlines of thehistory and culture of 25 literary places around the globe, as well as how they intersect with thelives of the authorsand the works that make them significant.Full-page colour illustrationsinstantly transport you to each location. You’ll find that these places are not just backdrops to the tales told, but characters in their own right.

Travel to the sun-scorched plains of Don Quixote’s La Mancha, roam the wild Yorkshire moors with Cathy and Heathcliff or view Central Park through the eyes ofJ.D. Salinger’s antihero. Explore the lush and languid backwaters ofArundhati Roy’s Kerala, the imposing precipice ofJoan Lindsay’s Hanging Rock and the labyrinthine streets and sewers ofVictor Hugo’s Paris.

Featured locations:
Paris,Les Miserables
Dublin,Ulysses
Florence,A Room with a View
Naples,My Brilliant Friend
Berlin,Berlin Alexanderplatz
Nordland,Growth of the Soil
St Petersburg,Crime and Punishment
Sierra de Guadarrama,For Whom the Bell Tolls
La Mancha,Don Quixote
Davos,The Magic Mountain
Bath,Northanger Abbey and Persuasion 
London,Oliver Twist
Yorkshire Moors,Wuthering Heights
Cairo,Palace Walk
Soweto,Burger's Daughter
Kerala,The God of Small Things
Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City),The Quiet American
Kabul,The Kite Runner
Hanging Rock,Picnic at Hanging Rock