from Ferrante's Naples to Hammett's San Francisco, literary pilgrimages around the world
2017
"Based on the... New York Times travel column, Footsteps is an anthology of literary pilgrimages, exploring the geographic muses behind some of history's greatest writers"--Provided by publisher.
Presents alphabetically arranged profiles of the lives and works of more than one hundred travel writers from 1450 to the end of the twentieth century, including fiction and nonfiction writers.
A collection of true travel stories and anedotes told by some of the world's best novelists, including Isabel Allende, Peter Matthiessen, Alexander McCall Smith, and more.