Author : Shannon McKenna Schmidt
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 40,27 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 1426202776
National Geographic leads book-loving adventurers on a whirlwind tour of 500 literary landmarks and offers practical trip-planning advice for visiting in person. Peppered with great reading suggestions and little-known tales of literary gossip, this book is the ultimate browser's delight.
Author : Victoria Brooks
Publisher : GreatestEscapes.com Publishing
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 20,45 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780968613719
24 more tales representing the very best in travel writing, plus thoroughly researched guidebook information.
Author : Patrick Allen
Publisher :
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 37,69 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
An anthology of fiction and nonfiction about Savannah
Author : Terence W. Cavanaugh
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,7 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Google Earth
ISBN : 9781564842831
Bookmapping allows students to plot the locations of a story on an interactive map, adding multimedia and hyperlinks about the setting, characters, and plot. They can add a photograph of a historical figure or an audio clip of regional music. And maps offer much more, helping students see places in the book firsthand - the vastness of the ocean their hero must cross, or the density of a city that hosts colorful and varied characters. In Bookmapping: Lit Trips and Beyond, Terence W. Cavanaugh and Jerome Burg show you how this dynamic, interactive activity is a cross-curricular tool that helps students not only develop a better understanding of places, cultures, and the books they are reading, but also make connections among the subjects they learn in school.
Author : Peter LaSalle
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 16,78 MB
Release : 2020-10-07
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0807174254
The World Is a Book, Indeed chronicles in eleven rich personal essays the ongoing quest of award-winning writer Peter LaSalle to embark on offbeat, often startlingly revelatory literary travel. LaSalle spends a summer roaming the lesser-known quarters of Paris, haunted by the writing of the French surrealists. In Hanoi, he meets for beers with the editors—two military men—of the Army Literature and Arts Magazine while investigating Vietnam’s acknowledged great modern novel, Bao Ninh’s The Sorrow of War. Other pieces find LaSalle on a strange nighttime drive through the streets of sprawling São Paulo in search of landmarks associated with Brazilian modernist poetry, bouncing around Africa to interview writers there when very young, exploring Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges's memorable stay in Texas, and traveling to Istanbul, Lisbon, Tunis, and elsewhere, as he considers major writers amid the settings that produced their works. Deeply felt and replete with insight into literature and life itself, even capable of evoking valid mind leaps in its innovative approaches, this is a collection for readers who love books and want to learn more about the places they originated, presented by a well-traveled guide with an intimate voice and a gift for the essay form.
Author : Bess Streeter Aldrich
Publisher :
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 10,56 MB
Release : 1928
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Tim Parks
Publisher : Alma Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,66 MB
Release : 2016-11-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781846883910
An acclaimed author of novels and short stories, Tim Parks--who was described in a recent review as "one of the best living writers of English"--has delighted audiences around the world with his finely observed writings on all aspects of Italian life and customs. This volume contains a selection of his best essays on the literature of his adopted country. From Boccaccio and Machiavelli through to Moravia and Tabucchi, from the Stil Novo to Divisionism, across centuries of history and intellectual movements, these essays will give English readers, and lovers of the Bel Paese and its culture, the lay of the literary land of Italy.
Author : Paul Fussell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 18,74 MB
Release : 1982-06-17
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0199878536
A book about the meaning of travel, about how important the topic has been for writers for two and a half centuries, and about how excellent the literature of travel happened to be in England and America in the 1920s and 30s.
Author : Jennifer Laing
Publisher : Channel View Publications
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 43,15 MB
Release : 2012-07-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1845413482
The books that we read, whether travel-focused or not, may influence the way in which we understand the process or experience of travel. This multidisciplinary work provides a critical analysis of the inspirational and transformational role that books play in travel imaginings. Does reading a book encourage us to think of travel as exotic, adventurous, transformative, dangerous or educative? Do different genres of books influence a reader's view of travel in multifarious ways? These questions are explored through a literary analysis of an eclectic selection of books spanning the period from the eighteenth century to the present day. Genres covered include historical fiction, children's books, westerns, science-fiction and crime fiction.
Author : Laura Ingalls Wilder
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 47,65 MB
Release : 1998-03-21
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0064435040
Join Laura and her family on their journey across the flat Kansas prairie. There are gophers and rabbits to play with in the daytime, and a cozy camp awaits at night. Renée Graef's enchanting full-color illustrations, inspired by Garth Williams' classic artwork, bring Laura and her family lovingly to life in this ninth title in the My First Little House Books series, picture books adapted from Laura Ingalls Wilder's beloved storybooks.
