Literary Trips
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- Full Title: Literary Trips: Following in the Footsteps of Fame
- Author(s): Edited by Victoria Brooks
- Year Published: 2000
- Publisher: Great Escapes Publishing
- Publication Type: Self/Vanity
- ISBN-10: 0-9686137-0-5 (paperback)
- ISBN-13: 978-0-9686137-0-2 (paperback)
- Description: Each essay in this collection discusses a location associated with a famous author, describing the author's history with the location, what they wrote about it, etc. After each essay the book provides travel information, such as hotel and restaurant recommendations, with a focus on locations associated with the author. For Ayn Rand, the location discussed is New York City, which is the primary locale for several of her works.
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Since this is a collection with multiple authors, the authors of each essay are indicated in brackets after the essay title. Chapters significantly related to Ayn Rand are indicated in bold.
- Foreword [Paul Bowles]
- Introduction [Bob Shacochis]
- Africa to Australasia
- Paul Bowles: Dreaming in Tangier [Victoria Brooks]
- T.E. Lawrence: Arabian Nights in Jordan [Joyce Gregory Wyels]
- Rohinton Mistry: Chasing Ghosts in Bombay [Margaret Deefholts]
- Bruce Chatwin: Walkabout in Australia [Richard Taylor]
- North America - West
- Malcolm Lowry: Paradise Lost in Vancouver [M.R. Carroll]
- The Beats: Visions of San Francisco [Suzie Rodriguez]
- D.H. Lawrence: Coal Miner's Son in New Mexico [Nancy Wigston]
- Garrison Keillor and Sinclair Lewis: Prairie Days in Minnesota [Elaine Glusac]
- North America - East
- Tennessee Williams: Streetcar Named New Orleans [Marda Burton]
- Margaret Mitchell and Tom Wolfe: Scarlett and the Right Stuff in Atlanta [Kathryn Means]
- Ayn Rand: Top of the World in New York [Eric Miller]
- Mark Twain: Connecticut Southerner in Yankee Land [Jennifer Huget]
- Elizabeth Smart: Poetry and Passion in Ottawa [Marilyn Carson]
- Caribbean and Latin America
- Ernest Hemingway: To Have and Have Not in Cuba [Victoria Brooks]
- Ian Fleming and Noėl Coward: Seduced by Jamaica [Victoria Brooks]
- John Stephens and Frederick Catherwod: Mayan Adventure in Mexico [Joyce Gregory Wyels]
- Great Britain and Ireland
- W.B. Yeats: Magic and Mystery in Ireland [Tanya Storr]
- Jane Urquhart and the Brontė Sisters: Swept Away on the Yorkshire Moors [Donna Carter]
- A.A. Milne: Winnie-the-Pooh in Ashdown Forest [Yvonne Jeffery Hope]
- Agatha Christie and Jane Austen: Trekking Through Southern England [Susan Kostrzewa]
- Continental Europe
- Knut Hamsun: Inner and Outer Journeys in Norway [Tom Henighan]
- The Lost Generation: American Expatriates in Paris [Suzie Rodriguez]
- Mary Shelley: Frankenstein's Mother in Geneva [Mavis Guinard]
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