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