Writers on the Road.
Far from familiar places, among crevasses, seven seas and skyscrapers, many writers have found inspiration for their masterpieces.
Whether on foot or on steamships and carriages, they experienced rousing affairs and made decisive encounters.
Encounters capable of being imprinted in memory and reborn on paper in immortal tales.
From Melville’s first voyage aboard a whaler. To Kerouac ‘s to America’s heartland, to Harry Potter’s fateful train.
Travis Elborough’s book traces 35 author itineraries, with juicy anecdotes about the birth of legendary works such as Dracula, Heart of Darkness and The Talented Mr. Ripley.
Writers on the Road, a perfect read for lovers of travel and great fiction, enhanced by color photographs and maps that reconstruct the stages of each adventure.
Publisher: The Hippocampus
Author: Travis Elborough
224 pp.
Melville’s 1851 novel Moby Dick, considered Melville’s masterpiece, was rediscovered in 1921.
Today Moby Dick is considered one of the seminal works of world literature. Translated into more than 20 languages.
Melville was named after the species of Leviathan melvillei, a Miocene cetacean akin to modern sperm whales, in reference to his novel Moby Dick.
€19,90
