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Footsteps : from Ferrante's Naples to Hammett's San Francisco, literary pilgrimages around the world.

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Three Rivers Press, 2017.

Travelers' writings.

Authors -- Travel.

9780804189842 (pbk.)

Alternate title:

New York Times footsteps : from Ferrante's Naples to Hammett's San Francisco, literary pilgrimages around the world

xi, 292 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cm.

Mark Twain's Hawaii -- Climbing a peak that stirred Kerouac -- A house built to feed body and soul -- San Francisco noir -- On the trail of Nabokov in the American West -- In search of Flannery O'Connor -- Walking the streets of Roth's memory -- The land and words of Mary Oliver, the bard of Provincetown -- Finding the Spirit of H. P. Lovecraft in Providence -- Rachel Carson's "rugged shore" in Maine -- In Ireland, chasing the wandering soul of Yeats -- Poetry made me do it : my trip to the Hebrides -- Where Dracula was born, and it's not Transylvania -- Finding Alice's "Wonderland" in Oxford -- On England's coast, Thomas Hardy made his world -- Blood, sand, sherry : Hemingway's Madrid -- James Baldwin's Paris -- Edith Wharton always had Paris -- Amid the menace of war, Sanary-sur-Mer was a refuge under the sun -- On the French Riviera, Fitzgerald found his place in the sun -- Lake Geneva as Shelley and Byron knew it -- Looking for Isherwood's Berlin -- On the trail of Hansel and Gretel in Germany -- Trumping the unbearable darkness of history -- The Roman seasons of Tennessee Williams -- Elena Ferrante's Naples, then and now -- Alice Munro's Vancouver -- Searching for Anne of Green Gables on Prince Edward Island -- Jamaica Kincaid's Antigua -- Beneath Martinique's beauty, guided by a poet -- A remote Colombian city that really does exist -- In Chile, where Pablo Neruda lived and loved -- Borges's Buenos Aires : a city populated by a native son's imagination -- Where Rimbaud found peace in Ethiopia -- In Saint Petersburg, a poet of the past serves as a tour guide for the present -- Orhan Pamuk's Istanbul -- In Sri Lanka, an island of detachment and desire -- In Vietnam, forbidden love and literature.

"A collection of the New York Times' travel column, "Footsteps," exploring classic authors' relationships to landmarks and cities around the world. Before The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway roamed the streets of Madrid, eager for the heady scent of blood emanating from the nearby bullrings. Before spunky, red-headed Anne Shirley stole readers' hearts in Anne of Green Gables, L.M. Montgomery was captivated by the sunset sky of Prince Edward Island. And before readers were terrified by a tentacled dragon-man called Cthulhu, H.P. Lovecraft was enthralled by the Industrial Trust tower-- the 26-story skyscraper that makes up the skyline of Providence, Rhode Island. Footsteps is an anthology of literary pilgrimages, exploring the geographic muses behind some of history's greatest writers. From the "dangerous, dirty and seductive" streets of Naples, the setting for Elena Ferrante's famous Neapolitan novels, to the "stone arches, creaky oaken doors, and riverside paths" of Oxford, the backdrop for Alice's adventures in Wonderland, Footsteps takes a fresh approach to literary tourism, appealing to readers and travel enthusiasts alike"--From publisher.

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