Description
Product ID: | 9781914613654 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Tender Maps |
Subtitle: | Travels in Search of the Emotions of Place |
Authors: | Author: Alice Maddicott |
Page Count: | 320 |
Subjects: | Memoirs, Memoirs, The Earth: natural history: general interest, Travel writing, The Earth: natural history general, Travel writing |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Travelling in search of atmosphere - a unique piece of travel writing weaving memoir, literature, art and psychogeography. Some travellers are driven by the need to scale a natural wonder, to see a city''s sights or a place of history. Others, like Alice Maddicott, travel in search of a particular scene, feeling or atmosphere, often inspired by music, literature and art. Taking us deep into our emotional and creative responses to place, this extraordinary book explores the author''s relentless travelling, from the heat of Sicily to the mountains of Japan. With her uniquely lyrical approach to psycho-geography, Maddicott explores the relationship with landscape that is the very essence of human creativity. From 17th-century salons of Paris to the underground culture and crumbling balconies of modern Tbilisi, through writers as diverse as Italo Calvino and L. M. Montgomery and artists like Ana Mendieta and 18th-century girls embroidering their lives, Tender Maps is a beautifully evocative book of travel, culture and imagination that transports readers in time and place. |
Imprint Name: | September Publishing |
Publisher Name: | September Publishing |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2024-03-07 |