500 Walks with Writers, Artists and Musicians

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