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Literary Trips: Following in the Footsteps of Fame
Literary Trips Following in the Footsteps of Fame Author:Victoria Brooks (Editor) While many travel books follow in the footsteps of writers, this collection of 23 short essays is a bit different. Focusing on famous writers and the locales for which they were well known such as Ernest Hemingway in Cuba, Bruce Chatwin in Australia, and Margaret Mitchell in Atlanta the book provides in each case brief historical and biographica... more »l information, along with a description of what the place was like at the time. Some of the authors of the essays also included their own personal narratives and added practical and up-to-date information about the place.
Includes:
Paul Bowles: dreaming in Tangier / Victoria Brooks
T.E. Lawrence: Arabian nights in Jordan / Joyce Gregory Wyels
Rohinton Mistry: chasing ghosts in Bombay / Margaret Deefholts
Bruce Chatwin: Walkabout in Australia / Richard Taylor
Malcolm Lowry: Paradise lost in Vancouver / M.R. Carroll
The Beats: visions of San Francisco / Suzie Rodriquez
D.H. Lawrence: coal miner's son in New Mexico / Nancy Wigston
Garrison Keillor and Sinclair Lewis: prairie days in Minnesota / Elaine Glusac
Tennessee Wiliams: streetcar named New Orleans / Marda Burton
Margaret Mitchell and Tom Wolfe: Scarlett and the right stuff in Atlanta / Kathryn Means
Ayn Rand: top of the world in New York / Eric Miller
Mark Twain: Connecticut southener in Yankee land / Jennifer Huget
Elizabeth Smart: poetry and passion in Ottawa / Marilyn Carson
Ernest Hemingway: to have and have not in Cuba / Victoria Brooks
Ian Fleming and Noël Coward: seduced in Jamaica / Victoria Brooks
John Stephens and Frederick Catherwood: Mayan adventure in Mexico / Joyce Gregory Wyels
W.B. Yeats: magic and mystery in Ireland / Tanya Storr
Jane Urquhart and the Brontë sisters: swept away on the Yorkshire moors / Donna Carter
A.A. Milne: Winnie-the-Pooh in Ashdown Forest / Yvonne Jeffery Hope
Agatha Christie and Jane Austen: trekking through southern England / Susan Kostrzewa
Knut Hamsun: inner and outer journeys in Norway / Tom Henighan
The Lost Generation: American expatriates in Paris / Suzie Rodriquez
Mary Shelley: Frankenstein's mother in Geneva / Mavis Guinard