Literary

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781613744260Author Terri Peterson SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Chicago Review PressPublisher Chicago Review Press

The poems in William Virgil Davis's Landscape and Journey constitute forays onto actual terrain—either close to home in Texas or farther off in Wales—as well as exploring what the poet Guy Davenport once called the geography of the imagination. A number...

For centuries before its ""rebirth"" as a spoken language, Hebrew writing was like a magical ship in a bottle that gradually changed design but never voyaged out into the world. Isolated, the ancient Hebrew ship was torpid because the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941821114Author John MuirFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Westwinds PressPublisher Westwinds PressWeight(grams) 322g

This book explores the representation of Wales and 'Welshness' in texts by French- (including Breton) and German-speaking travellers from 1780 to the present day. Since the emergence of the travel narrative as a popular source of information and...

The title, “A Room of Their Own: A Travel Guidebook to Women’s Home Museums in the Northeastern U.S.” is a play on Virginia Wolf ‘s famous work, “A Room of One’s Own” in which Wolf opines on the importance of having your own space in which to write and...

Explore 50 of the most unique libraries located in unknown spaces across the world in this beautiful book for travel-loving bibliophiles. From China's lonely library on a secluded beach to a roving military tank filled with 900 novels in Buenos Aires,...

A beautiful photographic stroll around the bookshops, restaurants, literary locations and authors’ neighbourhoods in the Big Apple. Literary Landscapes: New York is the follow-up to Literary Landscapes: Paris and contains a familiar blend of everything...