Discover the World in 500 Walks - With Writers, Artists & Musicians

Explore the diverse cultural and historical legacy of the world's greatest writers, artists and composers on foot.This unique trans-continental culture trip around the world presents a series of inspiring walks, treks, and hikes that vary between easy one-hour strolls, half day trails, and multi-day expeditions for people who love a walking holiday and are looking for a more immersive experience. The book includes walks in easy to reach countryside areas, national parks, the wild, and the great cities of the world. 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

CONTENTS
Introduction includes:
How to use this book
Walks are organized by continent:
CH1 NORTH AMERICA
CH2 SOUTH & CENTRAL AMERICA
CH3 EUROPE & CAUCAUSAS
CH4 AFRICA
CH5 ASIA
CH6 AUSTRALASIA
EXAMPLE WALKS
LITERARY
• Wander with William Wordsworth around Glencoyne Bay, the Lake District
• Christopher Marlowe's idealised English countryside
• Virginia Woolf's London
• The White cliffs of Dover that inspired Matthew Arnold's great poem
• Winnie the Pooh walks around Gill's Lap
• Explore the rolling Dorset hills with Thomas Hardy
• Wittgenstein's Cambridge
• Explore the setting for Bram Stoker's Dracula in Whitby
• The Dylan Thomas Trail in Lampeter, Aberaeron, and New Quay, Wales
• James Joyce's Dublin
• Robert Burns to Ian Rankin in Edinburgh
• Paris by the Book: tour the haunts of writer's including Earnest Hemingway and Ezra Pound
• Stockholm's Millennium Tour to celebrate Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
• Desolate Peak, Washington State's inspiration for Jack Kerouac
• Visit De Smet, South Dakota, to walk in the world of Laura Ingalls Wilder
•A literary Tour of Portland Oregon, including Portland Arts and Lectures series
• Discover the Fireside Poets of 19th Century Boston, including Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Stroll through Greenwich Village to discover the haunts of • Henry James and Edith Wharton
• Follow Teju Cole around New York City
• Re trace Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
• Follow in the footsteps of Mark Twain in Hartford, Connecticut
• Explore Kansas City Public Library in Missouri
• Visit Oak Park, Illinois, during the weekend of July 17th to join Earnest Hemingway's 8K Running of the Bulls
• Wander around Los Angeles after Jim Harrison
• Pablo Neruda is the focus for a tour of Santiago, Chile
• Explore Yukon Territory, Canada, and practice fire lighting, inspired by Jack London
ART THEMES
•Explore the street art in Wynwood, Miami (second saturdays)
• Join the Mural Challenge, Lexington, Kentucky
• Claude Monet's Rouen, France
• Gloucester Harbor, Massachusetts (Winslow Homer, William Morris Hunt)
• The Hudson River, Thomas Cole
• Rhode Island with Martin Johnson Heade
• Look Down Yosemite Valley with Albert Bierstadt
• New Mexico through the eyes of Georgia O'Keeffe
• Birdspotting with John James Audubon
• Horatio McCulloch's idealised Highlands, Scotland
• Yorkshire with David Hockney
• Yorkshire Sculpture Park
• Recreate Richard Long's A Line made By Walking in the Wiltshire countryside
MUSICAL
• Mendelssohn's Scotland and Hebrides
• The hills of the Italian Riviera, inspiration to Edward Elgar
• Franz Liszt's journey through Switzerland
• Bryce Canyon, Utah, inspiration to Olivier Messiaen
• The South Pole, inspiration to Vaughan Williams and Peter Maxwell Davies
• Explore the Atlas Mountains, Algeria with Gustav Holst
• Tosca's Rome
• Beethoven's Vienna
• Claudio Monteverdi in Venice
• Ocmulgee River Heritage Trail, Macon, Georgia to commemorate Otis Redding
• Visit the Joshua Tree, California, which inspired U2
• See who's playing at Shrine of the Ages Auditorium
Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona
• Go to the unique Moab Music Festival in the Arches and Canyonlands National Parks, Utah
• Recreate Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights in Wiltshire

Zusammenfassung

Hiking routes and city strolls inspired by artists, writers, and composers.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Katherine Stathers, Ms. Katherine Stathers
• Mitarbeit: Katherine Stathers (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Frances Lincoln
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 31.03.2021
• EAN: 9780711252868
• ISBN: 978-0-7112-5286-8
• Abmessung: 175 mm x 234 mm x 30 mm
• Thema: Reise > Reiseberichte, Reiseerzählungen > Welt, Arktis ,Antarktis