Overview
Some travellers are driven by the need to scale a natural wonder, or to see a cityās 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 authorās 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 seventeenth-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 eighteenth-century girls embroidering their lives, Tender Maps is a beautifullyĀ evocative book of travel, culture and imagination that transports readers in time and place.
āA rich and beguiling work of literary travel memoir thatĀ nimbly tracks the wider contours of the world in terms of feeling, memory, introspection and the imagination.ā - Travis Elborough, author of Atlas of Vanishing Places
This book title, Tender Maps, ISBN: 9781914613326, by Alice Maddicott, published by Global Book Sales (August 1, 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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