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Booked Richard Kreitner

Booked von Richard Kreitner

Booked Richard Kreitner


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Zusammenfassung

This practical armchair travel guide explores eighty of the most iconic literary locations from all over the globe that you can actually visit.

Booked Zusammenfassung

Booked: A Traveler's Guide to Literary Locations Around the World Richard Kreitner

A must-have for every fan of literature, Booked inspires readers to follow in their favorite characters footsteps by visiting the real-life locations portrayed in beloved novels including the Monroeville, Alabama courthouse in To Kill a Mockingbird, Chatsworth House, the inspiration for Pemberley in Pride and Prejudice, and the Kyoto Bridge from Memoirs of a Geisha. The full-color photographs throughout reveal the settings readers have imagined again and again in their favorite books.

Organized by regions all around the world, author Richard Kreitner explains the importance of each literary landmark including the connection to the author and novel, cultural significance, historical information, and little-known facts about the location. He also includes travel advice like addresses and must-see spots.

Booked features special sections on cities that inspired countless literary works like a round of locations in Brooklyn from Betty Smith's iconic A Tree Grows in Brooklyn to Jonathan Lethem's Motherless Brooklynand a look at the New Orleans of Tennessee Williams and Anne Rice.

Über Richard Kreitner

Richard Kreitner is a contributing writer at The Nation magazine. His work on politics, history, and literature has also appeared in Slate, The Baffler, and The Boston Globe. A lover of books and travel, he is the author of The Obsessively-Detailed Map of American Literature's Most Epic Road Trip, featured in Atlas Obscura in 2015. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.

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GOR011335340
9780316420877
0316420875
Booked: A Traveler's Guide to Literary Locations Around the World Richard Kreitner
Gebraucht - Sehr Gut
Gebundene Ausgabe
Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Inc
20190423
240
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