Quick Search  


Catalogue
Quick Links
Art
Architecture
& Design
Photography
Erotic Books
Antiques
Mind, Body,
Spirt
Feng Shui
Travel
Language
International
Cuisine
Natural
History
Business
Gardening
Military
History
Encyclopedia
of Malaysia
Travel: Literary Travel Guides
Other associated catalogues
Travel: Photographic || Languages:


Margaret Drabble, in her foreword, declares this to be the series she has been looking for all her life and we join her applause. It's amazing that the project has never been attempted before. The idea is so simple that it must be original....

Traveller's Literary Companion to the Caribbean

James Ferguson

This unique guide looks at the islands of Jamaica, Cuba, The Bahamas, Haiti, Martinique, Trinidad and Puerto Rico and explores the richness and diversity of Caribbean literature. Each chapter has an accessible and informative introduction to the geography, history and political context to a particular island or group of islands. Over170 extracts are included from noted expatriates such as Ernest Hemingway in Cuba, Graham Greene in Haiti and Anthony Trollope in Jamaica together with leading Caribbean novelists and poets such as Derek Walcott, Aime Cesaire, V.S. Naipaul, and Jean Rhys.
... Quote from U.K. Financial Times .... A first class anthology of Caribbean literture ... more challenging and useful than many of its competitors ...

  • Literary maps, photographs of authors and author index
  • 376 pages
  • 220 X 142
  • Soft Cover
  • 1873047517
  • £13.95
Quantity

Traveller's Literary Companion to France

John Edmondson

Sartre and Beauvoir in Saint-Germain, Scott Fitzgerald on the Riviera, Balzac in the Loire, Hemingway and the lost generation on the Left Bank. Over 120 extracts from French and expatriate novelists and poets are included in this unique literary guide highlighting key works associated with each region of France. Every chapter contains a guide to writers' houses, museums and other sites of literary significance and there is a street-by-street guide to Paris.
...Quote from France Magazine .... Summer's star book has to be this bibliophile's travel guide. If you only buy one title a year, make it this one ...

  • Literary maps, photographs of authors and author index
  • 376 pages
  • 220 X 142
  • Soft Cover
  • 187304741X
  • £12.95
Quantity

Traveller's Literary Companion to South and Central America

Jason Wilson

See Colombia with Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Mexico with Graham Greene, Peru with Mario Vargas Llosa. The countries of South and Central America are brought to life in over 250 extracts by novelists, poets and travel writers. For each of the 21 countries there is an accessible and informative introduction to the geography, culture and politics, with constant references to literature. Extracted writers include Jack Kerouac, Isabel Allende, Voltaire, Charles Darwin and many more.
... Quote from U.K. Independent .... Mandatory reading for any gringos planning a trip to the most interesting half of the Americas ...

  • Literary maps, photographs of authors and author index
  • 376 pages
  • 220 X 142
  • Soft Cover
  • 1873047452
  • £13.95
Quantity

Traveller's Literary Companion to Eastern and Central Europe

James Naughton

Kafka's Prague, Olivia Manning's Bucharest, Byron on Albania ... this unique travel guide shows how Eastern and Central Europe has stirred the literary imagination throughout the ages. This is a fascinating literary tour covering Albania, Bulgaria, the Czech and Slovak Republics, Hungary, Poland, Romania and the lands of former Yugoslavia. Each chapter includes extracts from novels and poetry, biographical notes and guides to literary landmarks.
... Quote from U.K. Times Literary Supplement .... There is a wealth of material, not otherwise available in English, packed into this handsomely produced book, and no serious visitor to the region will want to make a trip without it ...

  • Literary maps, photographs of authors and author index
  • 376 pages
  • 220 X 142
  • Soft Cover
  • 1873047657
  • £13.95
Quantity

Traveller's Literary Companion to Japan

Harry Guest

This unique guide ranges from the 10th century Pillow Book to the contemporary novels of Murakami. Each chapter has an accessible and informative introduction to the geography, history and literature of a particular region and over 100 extracts from novels and poems show how Japan has stirred the literary imagination throughout the ages. The reader is taken on four famous literary journeys that traverse the whole country ... a chance to see Kyoto through the eyes of Lady Murasaki and Kiplng, Tokyo through the eyes of Mishima and David Lodge.
... Quote from Insight Japan .... Through his choice of extracts the author conveys the humanity and the humour which are so essential to an understanding of the Japanese condition ...

  • Literary maps, photographs of authors and author index
  • 376 pages
  • 220 X 142
  • Soft Cover
  • 1873047754
  • £12.95
Quantity

Traveller's Literary Companion to Italy

Martin Garrett

E. M. Forster in Florence, Casanova and Thomas Mann in Venice, Virgil and Norman Lewis in Naples. Over 60 extracts from Italian and expatriate novelists and poets are included in this unique literary guide taking the reader on the grand tour of Italy. Every chapter contains a guide to writers' houses, museums and other sites of literary significance and highlights key works associated with mainland Italy, Sicily and Sardinia.
... Quote from Art Book Review Quarterly .... If this doesn't inspire the armchair traveller nothing will.

  • Literary maps, photographs of authors and author index
  • 376 pages
  • 220 X 142
  • Soft Cover
  • 1873047916
  • £12.95
Quantity

Quick Search