Quarto Publishing, Sachbücher, Discover the World in 500 Walks (Englisch, Katherine Stathers, 2021)

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