Bookish Travels: Walking Through Adventure

Traveling to faraway places is always wonderful.  Imagine if while you're traveling you have a handy guide to the area and the settings of beloved books.  You can mark literary landmarks on your map and physically immerse yourself in the places your beloved characters have been. Not all of these are in print, but you can easily get them via Interlibrary Loan or buy them used on Amazon.com.

Here are a few guides to help you find your way:

Novel Destinations: literary Landmarks from Jane Austen's Bath to Ernest Hemingway's Key West by Shannon McKenna Schmidt and Joni Rendon

A Literary Guide to London by Ed Glinert

Once Upon a Time in Great Britain by Melanie Wentz

Jane Austen in Bath: Walking Tours of the Writer's City by Katharine Reeve

Storybook Travels From Eloise's New Your to Harry Potter's London: Visits to 30 of the Best-Loved Landmarks in Children's Literature by Colleen Dunn Bates & Susan Latempa

Traveling Literary America: a Complete Guide to Literary Landmarks by B.J. Welborn

A Reader's Guide to Writer's London by Ian Cunningham

Literary London a Street by Street Guide by Ed Glinert

 

 

Off the Beaten Page: the best Trips for Lit Lovers, Book Clubs and Girls on Getaways by Terri Peterson Smith