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Ms. Katherine Stathers
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