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