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Chargement... Treasured Island: A Book Lover's Tour of Britain (original 2015; édition 2016)par Frank Barrett (Auteur)
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A book-lover's journey around the landscapes that shaped--and are shaped by--Britain's literature Inspired by the discovery of his childhood copy of Treasure Island, The Mail on Sunday's Frank Barrett embarks on a literary quest around Britain, from Eliot's East Coker to Austen's Bath, Winnie-the-Pooh's Hartfield to Dracula's Whitby. Armed with a lifetime of reading and his National Trust membership, Frank is on a personal odyssey through the Britain that has inspired so many writers to capture it in lines or verse, the homes that they lived in, the museums that remember them. There will be rain, there will be truculent tour guides, there will be satnav misdemeanors, (there may even be tuberculosis), but Frank will carry on regardless. Where? To the lighthouse... Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)914.1048612History and Geography Geography and Travel Geography of and travel in Europe British Isles, UK, Great Britain, Scotland, Ireland Travel 1837- Victoria & Windsors 2000- 2000-2019 2010-2019Classification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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Starting in the West Country, his travels take him to graveyards, across moors, to the end of a cobb, to woods and even to the lighthouse. He visits the many museums that are dedicated to a single author, the author’s homes that are now owned by the National Trust and to stand in the landscapes that inspired them to put pen to paper.
This is not an exceptional book, but it is a delight to read. Barrett writes with a subtle humour, drawing out the stories on each of the authors and locations, and sprinkling the text with facts and anecdotes on the books. His research on each of the places he visits is good, it should be given his journalist background, but it does mean that the writing can be a little clipped and terse at times. The only thing that stopped me giving this four stars was that is was lacking maps of the locations he visited. They needn’t have been detailed, but they do aid the context of where he went.
Good stuff though, one for all lovers of books. ( )