Overview
Travel journalist Sarah Baxter reveals 25 essential cinematic destinations around the globe, spanning different decades, directors and movie genres. Full-page colour illustrations instantly transport you to each location. You’ll find that these places are not just backdrops to the tales told, but characters in their own right.
Travel to the sweeping deserts of Lawrence of Arabia in Jordan, escape to the tumbling hills of San Francisco as seen in Hitchcock’s Vertigo or lose yourself in the cobbled lanes of In Bruges.
Featured locations:
- London, England, Paddington
- Wells, England, Hot Fuzz
- Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland, The Wicker Man
- Belchite & the Sierra de Guadarrama, Spain, Pan’s Labyrinth
- Montmartre, Paris, France, Amélie
- Bruges, Belgium, In Bruges
- Görlitz, Germany, The Grand Budapest Hotel
- Fårö, Sweden, Persona
- Salzburg, Austria, The Sound of Music
- Rome, Italy, La Dolce Vita
- Matmata & Tozeur, Tunisia, Star Wars: A New Hope
- Wadi Rum, Jordan, Lawrence of Arabia
- Mumbai, India, The Lunchbox
- Hong Kong, China, Enter the Dragon
- Seoul, South Korea, Parasite
- Tokyo, Japan, Lost in Translation
- Outback, Australia, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
- Karekare Beach, New Zealand, The Piano
- Alberta, Canada, The Revenant
- Philadelphia, USA, Rocky
- San Francisco, USA, Vertigo
- Brooklyn, New York, USA, Do the Right Thing
- Dead Horse Point State Park, Utah, USA, Thelma & Louise
- Jamaica, Dr No
- Cusco & Machu Picchu, Peru, The Motorcycle Diaries
Each book in the Inspired Traveller's Guides series offers readers a fascinating, informative and charmingly illustrated guide to must-visit destinations round the globe. Also from this series, explore intriguing: Artistic Places, Spiritual Places, Literary Places, Hidden Places, Mystical Places and Wild Places.
This book title, Cinematic Places, ISBN: 9780711264304, by Sarah Baxter, Amy Grimes, published by White Lion Publishing (April 18, 2023) is available in hardcover. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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