500 Walks With Writers Artists And Musicians

Author : Katherine Stathers
Publisher : Frances Lincoln
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-16
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780711259775

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500 Walks with Writers, Artists and Musicians by Katherine Stathers Pdf

Explore the diverse cultural and historical legacy of the world's greatest writers, artists and composers on foot. This unique trans-continental culture trip around the world presents a series of inspiring walks, treks, and hikes that vary between easy one-hour strolls, half day trails, and multi-day expeditions for people who love a walking holiday and are looking for a more immersive experience. The book includes walks in easy to reach countryside areas, national parks, the wild, and the great cities of the world. From an urban Street Art Walking Tour of East London to a traverse through the Georgian melting pot city of Tbilisi to a literary-themed Millennium Tour of Stieg Larsson’s Stockholm, Discover the World in 500 Walks with Writers, Artists & Musicians has all the inspiration and information you need to plan your next walking adventure.

Author : Kath Stathers
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781645172451

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Artist’s Path in 500 Walks by Kath Stathers Pdf

"This carefully researched collection of 500 walking routes, accompanied by full-color photography and illustrated maps, will help you explore the diverse legacy of the world's greatest artists, writers, and musicians. Take a transcontinental culture trip via a series of inspiring strolls, treks, and hikes in accessible countrysides, national parks, remore wildernesses, and the great cities of the world. Kath Stathers has curated this fascinating collection of 500 inspiring walks, ranging from casual strolls for day-trippers to multiday hikes for those looking for a more challenging experience. Whether it's wandering the streets of Rome with Raphael, hiking the Yorkshire Moors with the Brontèe sisters, or following the Mississippi with Mark Twain, The Artist's Path in 500 Walks has all the inspiration and infromation you need to plan your next walking adventure."--Back of cover.

Author : Sarah Baxter
Publisher : Aurum
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781781319376

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A History of the World in 500 Walks by Sarah Baxter Pdf

From prehistory to the present day, take a grand tour of world events at eye-level perspective with accounts that combine knowledgeable commentary with practical detail. You may even be inspired to lace up your own boots! From geologic upheavals and mad kings to trade routes and saints' ways, this book relates the tales behind the top 500 walks that have shaped our society. It's easy to imagine travelling back in time as you read about convicts and conquistadors, silk traders and Buddhists who have hiked along routes for purposes as varied as the terrain they covered.

Author : Geoff Nicholson
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009-11-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781594484032

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The Lost Art of Walking by Geoff Nicholson Pdf

How we walk, where we walk, why we walk tells the world who and what we are. Whether it's once a day to the car, or for long weekend hikes, or as competition, or as art, walking is a profoundly universal aspect of what makes us humans, social creatures, and engaged with the world. Cultural commentator, Whitbread Prize winner, and author of Sex Collectors Geoff Nicholson offers his fascinating, definitive, and personal ruminations on the literature, science, philosophy, art, and history of walking. Nicholson finds people who walk only at night, or naked, or in the shape of a cross or a circle, or for thousands of miles at a time, in costume, for causes, or for no reason whatsoever. He examines the history and traditions of walking and its role as inspiration to artists, musicians, and writers like Bob Dylan, Charles Dickens, and Buster Keaton. In The Lost Art of Walking, he brings curiosity, imagination, and genuine insight to a subject that often strides, shuffles, struts, or lopes right by us.

Author : Mary Caperton Morton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781645176282

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The World's Best National Parks in 500 Walks by Mary Caperton Morton Pdf

Tour the world's national parks via five hundred walks and hikes through preserved natural beauty.

Author : Maria Popova,Claudia Bedrick
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-25
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781592703326

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A Velocity of Being by Maria Popova,Claudia Bedrick Pdf

A Brain Pickings Best Children's Book of the Year "An embarrassment of riches." —The New York Times An expansive collection of love letters to books, libraries, and reading, from a wonderfully eclectic array of thinkers and creators. In these pages, some of today's most wonderful culture-makers—writers, artists, scientists, entrepreneurs, and philosophers—reflect on the joys of reading, how books broaden and deepen human experience, and the ways in which the written word has formed their own character. On the page facing each letter, an illustration by a celebrated illustrator or graphic artist presents that artist's visual response. Among the diverse contributions are letters from Jane Goodall, Neil Gaiman, Jerome Bruner, Shonda Rhimes, Ursula K. Le Guin, Yo-Yo Ma, Judy Blume, Lena Dunham, Elizabeth Gilbert, and Jacqueline Woodson, as well as a ninety-eight-year-old Holocaust survivor, a pioneering oceanographer, and Italy's first woman in space. Some of the illustrators, cartoonists, and graphic designers involved are Marianne Dubuc, Sean Qualls, Oliver Jeffers, Maira Kalman, Mo Willems, Isabelle Arsenault, Chris Ware, Liniers, Shaun Tan, Tomi Ungerer, and Art Spiegelman. This project is woven entirely of goodwill, generosity of spirit, and a shared love of books. Everyone involved has donated their time, and all profits will go to the New York Public Library systems. This stunning 272-page hardcover volume features a lay-flat binding to allow for greater ease of reading.

Author : Robert Macfarlane
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-07
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780241145531

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The Old Ways by Robert Macfarlane Pdf

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE The original bestseller from the beloved author of UNDERLAND, LANDMARKS and THE LOST WORDS - Robert Macfarlane travels Britain's ancient paths and discovers the secrets of our beautiful, underappreciated landscape 'The Old Ways confirms Macfarlane's reputation as one of the most eloquent and observant of contemporary writers about nature' Scotland on Sunday Following the tracks, holloways, drove-roads and sea paths that form part of a vast ancient network of routes criss-crossing the British Isles and beyond, Robert Macfarlane discovers a lost world - a landscape of the feet and the mind, of pilgrimage and ritual, of stories and ghosts; above all of the places and journeys which inspire and inhabit our imaginations. 'Sublime . . . It sets the imagination tingling, laying an irresistible trail for readers to follow' Sunday Times 'Read this and it will be impossible to take an unremarkable walk again' Metro 'He has a rare physical intelligence and affords total immersion in place, elements and the passage of time: wonderful' Antony Gormley

Author : Wab Kinew
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780143193562

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The Reason You Walk by Wab Kinew Pdf

A moving story of father-son reconciliation told by a charismatic aboriginal star When his father was given a diagnosis of terminal cancer, Winnipeg broadcaster and musician Wab Kinew decided to spend a year reconnecting with the accomplished but distant aboriginal man who’d raised him. The Reason You Walk spans that 2012 year, chronicling painful moments in the past and celebrating renewed hopes and dreams for the future. As Kinew revisits his own childhood in Winnipeg and on a reserve in Northern Ontario, he learns more about his father's traumatic childhood at residential school. An intriguing doubleness marks The Reason You Walk, itself a reference to an Anishinaabe ceremonial song. Born to an Anishinaabe father and a non-native mother, he has a foot in both cultures. He is a Sundancer, an academic, a former rapper, a hereditary chief and an urban activist. His father, Tobasonakwut, was both a beloved traditional chief and a respected elected leader who engaged directly with Ottawa. Internally divided, his father embraced both traditional native religion and Catholicism, the religion that was inculcated into him at the residential school where he was physically and sexually abused. In a grand gesture of reconciliation, Kinew's father invited the Roman Catholic bishop of Winnipeg to a Sundance ceremony in which he adopted him as his brother. Kinew writes affectingly of his own struggles in his twenties to find the right path, eventually giving up a self-destructive lifestyle to passionately pursue music and martial arts. From his unique vantage point, he offers an inside view of what it means to be an educated aboriginal living in a country that is just beginning to wake up to its aboriginal history and living presence. Invoking hope, healing and forgiveness, The Reason You Walk is a poignant story of a towering but damaged father and his son as they embark on a journey to repair their family bond. By turns lighthearted and solemn, Kinew gives us an inspiring vision for family and cross-cultural reconciliation, and for a wider conversation about the future of aboriginal peoples.

Author : Renée Carlino
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781501105784

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Before We Were Strangers by Renée Carlino Pdf

From the USA TODAY bestselling author of Sweet Thing and Nowhere But Here comes a love story about a Craigslist “missed connection” post that gives two people a second chance at love fifteen years after they were separated in New York City. To the Green-eyed Lovebird: We met fifteen years ago, almost to the day, when I moved my stuff into the NYU dorm room next to yours at Senior House. You called us fast friends. I like to think it was more. We lived on nothing but the excitement of finding ourselves through music (you were obsessed with Jeff Buckley), photography (I couldn’t stop taking pictures of you), hanging out in Washington Square Park, and all the weird things we did to make money. I learned more about myself that year than any other. Yet, somehow, it all fell apart. We lost touch the summer after graduation when I went to South America to work for National Geographic. When I came back, you were gone. A part of me still wonders if I pushed you too hard after the wedding… I didn’t see you again until a month ago. It was a Wednesday. You were rocking back on your heels, balancing on that thick yellow line that runs along the subway platform, waiting for the F train. I didn’t know it was you until it was too late, and then you were gone. Again. You said my name; I saw it on your lips. I tried to will the train to stop, just so I could say hello. After seeing you, all of the youthful feelings and memories came flooding back to me, and now I’ve spent the better part of a month wondering what your life is like. I might be totally out of my mind, but would you like to get a drink with me and catch up on the last decade and a half? M

Author : W. G. Sebald
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811221306

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The Rings of Saturn by W. G. Sebald Pdf

"The book is like a dream you want to last forever" (Roberta Silman, The New York Times Book Review), now with a gorgeous new cover by the famed designer Peter Mendelsund A masterwork of W. G. Sebald, now with a gorgeous new cover by the famed designer Peter Mendelsund The Rings of Saturn—with its curious archive of photographs—records a walking tour of the eastern coast of England. A few of the things which cross the path and mind of its narrator (who both is and is not Sebald) are lonely eccentrics, Sir Thomas Browne’s skull, a matchstick model of the Temple of Jerusalem, recession-hit seaside towns, wooded hills, Joseph Conrad, Rembrandt’s "Anatomy Lesson," the natural history of the herring, the massive bombings of WWII, the dowager Empress Tzu Hsi, and the silk industry in Norwich. W.G. Sebald’s The Emigrants (New Directions, 1996) was hailed by Susan Sontag as an "astonishing masterpiece perfect while being unlike any book one has ever read." It was "one of the great books of the last few years," noted Michael Ondaatje, who now acclaims The Rings of Saturn "an even more inventive work than its predecessor, The Emigrants."

Author : Julian Barnes
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307957337

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The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes Pdf

BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A novel that follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he never much thought about—until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance: one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present. A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single setting, The Sense of an Ending has the psychological and emotional depth and sophistication of Henry James at his best, and is a stunning achievement in Julian Barnes's oeuvre. Tony Webster thought he left his past behind as he built a life for himself, and his career has provided him with a secure retirement and an amicable relationship with his ex-wife and daughter, who now has a family of her own. But when he is presented with a mysterious legacy, he is forced to revise his estimation of his own nature and place in the world.

Author : William Brohaugh,Adria Haley,Cris Freese
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Popular music
ISBN : UCAL:B4324635

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Songwriter's Market by William Brohaugh,Adria Haley,Cris Freese Pdf

Author : Riva Castleman
Publisher : ABRAMS
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1997-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0810961814

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A Century of Artists Books by Riva Castleman Pdf

Published to accompany the 1994 exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, this book constitutes the most extensive survey of modern illustrated books to be offered in many years. Work by artists from Pierre Bonnard to Barbara Kruger and writers from Guillaume Apollinarie to Susan Sontag. An importnt reference for collectors and connoisseurs. Includes notable works by Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso.

Author : Maynard Solomon
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Composers
ISBN : UOM:39015046360551

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Beethoven by Maynard Solomon Pdf

Presents a comprehensive study of Beethoven, his career, and his music.

Author : Mason Currey
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780330512497

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Daily Rituals by Mason Currey Pdf

From Marx to Murakami and Beethoven to Bacon, 'Daily Rituals' examines the working routines of more than a 160 of the greatest philosophers, writers, composers and artists ever to have lived. Filled with fascinating insights on the mechanics of genius and entertaining stories of the personalities behind it, it is irresistibly addictive and utterly inspiring