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Novel Destinations: Literary Landmarks from Jane Austen's Bath to Ernest Hemingway's Key West
Shannon Mckenn Schmidt and Joni Rendon
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Hardcover, 357 pages; 2008
$25.00
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The ideal travel guide for bibliophiles, Novel Destinations is packed with more than 500 enticing literary destinations throughout the United States and Europe. The authors, both contributors to National Geographic Traveler, offer practical information, as well as insider anecdotes, on visiting authors‘homes and museums; literary festivals and tours; famous sites memorialized in fiction; and hotels, bars, and restaurants frequented by writers and by fictional characters. The final section details in depth tours of ten locales particularly immortalized by famous novelists, such as James Joyce’s Dublin and John Steinbeck’s Salinas Valley, California. Whether you’re inclined to take tea in Bath like Jane Austen’s Catherine Moreland or to cruise the Mississippi River in the footsteps of Mark Twain’s Huck Finn, Novel Destinations is sure to inspire enriching vacations for avid readers.
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