The highway of letters and its echoes of famous footsteps
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Sprache:Englisch
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Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
01.06.2019
Verlag
Alpha EditionsSeitenzahl
528
Maße (L/B/H)
21,6/14/3,1 cm
Gewicht
737 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-93-5370-957-0
Open a map; hear it speak. In The highway of letters and its echoes of famous footsteps, Thomas Archer turns the act of travelling into a conversation with the past. Walk these roads with him. Part travel essay collection, part literary travel writing in the form of classic nonfiction letters, these pages follow historic highways and byways where memory clings to stone, inn-sign, and milepost. Archer writes as a keen Victorian observer, tracing literary pilgrimage routes that lead to British literary landmarks and the wider world, and measuring the present against the voices that shaped it. The result is rich in atmosphere and bracingly intelligent, equally at home on an armchair journey or beside your own itineraries. Set against Victorian era Britain and the broader currents of nineteenth century travel, this book captures how readers once sought out famous authors footsteps as readily as scenery. Its value lies in that double vision: travel history for travel history readers, and a quietly passionate guide for literature lovers who enjoy seeing how places become texts. There is pleasure in his attentive eye for stations, coaching roads, and the small dramas of the journey, details that make the past tactile. A fine pick for casual browsers, and for collectors who prize voice and context. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint -- a collector's item and a cultural treasure, and a natural companion to any annotated classic edition shelf.
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