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[9]Whether you’re a savvy wanderer who knows that a good
book makes the perfect traveling companion, or a dedicated armchair
adventurer who wants to learn more about the places favorite
novelists have made their own, this entertaining, informative
volume is ideal for bookcase and suitcase alike.
Here are classic literary landscapes, from the wild moorlands of
the Brontë sisters and Wordsworth’s daffodil-dotted Lake
District to Dostoyevsky’s brooding St. Petersburg. Stateside
you’ll travel across Robert Frost’s New England to the
Deep South of William Faulkner and the rolling hills of Jack
London’s California ranch land. Featured sites and events
include everything from author houses and museums to legendary
libraries, festivals, and walking tours. A sampling of restaurants,
pubs, inns, and hotels where famous scribes once dined and dozed
rounds out your literary itinerary.
The second half of the book explores ten locales immortalized by
famed novelists, illuminating little-known stories about the places
so indelibly associated with their work. There is Jane Austen,
famously linked with the resort town of Bath despite her preference
for the simple pleasures of country life over the city. Equally
interesting to learn is how Victor Hugo’s novel THE HUNCHBACK
OF NOTRE-DAME inspired early literary travelers. Like browsing a
good library, readers can wander from Franz Kafka’s Prague to
Ernest Hemingway’s Key West, Charles Dickens’ London,
James Joyce’s Dublin, John Steinbeck’s Monterey, Louisa
May Alcott’s Massachusetts and more.
Whether you honor Scotland’s national bard at a Burns Night
Supper, battle the windmills that Don Quixote mistook for
oppressive giants, or stake out the foggy San Francisco street
where Sam Spade’s partner fell victim to a beautiful but
deadly dame in THE MALTESE FALCON, your passport to literary
adventure begins in the pages of NOVEL DESTINATIONS.
NOVEL DESTINATIONS: Literary Landmarks From Jane Austen's Bath to
Ernest Hemingway's Key West © Copyright 2011 by Shannon
McKenna Schmidt and Joni Rendon. Reprinted with permission by
National Geographic. All rights reserved.
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Novel Destinations: Literary Landmarks From Jane Austen's Bath to Ernest Hemingway's Key West