A Sense of Place
Great Travel Writers Talk About Their Craft, Lives, and Inspiration (Travelers' Tales)
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Word Count
99,000 words, Guess
Page Count
396 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Internet Archivesenseofplacegrea0000shap
- ISBN-101932361081
- ISBN-139781932361087
- Library of Congress Control Number2004011873
- OCLC Control Number55495116
and 2 more
- Better World Books9781932361087
- Open LibraryOL8808489M
Classifications
- LCCG154.49.S52 2004
- LCCG154.49 .S52 2004
Description
Great writers inspire readers to head out in search of foreign sunsets, but in this instance, they inspired travel writer Michael Shapiro to head out for the great writers themselves. A Sense of Place is one writer's journey to visit all the heroes who have motivated him — to pack a pen and toothbrush, to find out where they live, why they chose the place, and how it influences their writing. In each scene, readers, writers, and travelers are given a glimpse of the locale and surroundings of the writer: Simon Winchester's Massachusetts, Redmond O'Hanlon's London, Jan Morris's Wales, or Frances Mayes's Tuscany. But then it's left up to the writers themselves to situate the reader and describe their lives, their craft, and their remarkable world, which they do with living room intimacy. The result is engaging, illuminating, and transporting for writers and travelers alike.
First Sentence
NIGHT IS ENVELOPING THE COLOMBIAN JUNGLE CAMP; YOUR traveling companion is insulting one of Colombia's most ruthless guerrilla leaders, and said guerrilla is dropping less-than-subtle hints that you may soon be kidnapped.
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