The Writer's Journey : In the Footsteps of the Literary Greats.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Elborough, Travis.

Series:

Journeys of Note

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Travel writing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : Quarto Publishing Group UK, 2022.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover

Title

Contents

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

Bashō 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

Author Acknowledgments

Copyright.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: Elborough, Travis The Writer's Journey

ISBN:

9780711268746

OCLC:

1350445350