500 Walks with Writers, Artists and Musicians

CONTENTS 

Introduction includes: 

How to use this book 

Walks are organized by continent: 

CH1 NORTH AMERICA 

CH2 SOUTH & CENTRAL AMERICA 

CH3 EUROPE & CAUCAUSAS 

CH4 AFRICA 

CH5 ASIA 

CH6 AUSTRALASIA 

EXAMPLE WALKS 

LITERARY 

• Wander with William Wordsworth around Glencoyne Bay, the Lake District 

• Christopher Marlowe’s idealised English countryside 

• Virginia Woolf’s London 

• The White cliffs of Dover that inspired Matthew Arnold’s great poem 

• Winnie the Pooh walks around Gill’s Lap 

• Explore the rolling Dorset hills with Thomas Hardy 

• Wittgenstein’s Cambridge 

• Explore the setting for Bram Stoker’s Dracula in Whitby 

• The Dylan Thomas Trail in Lampeter, Aberaeron, and New Quay, Wales 

• James Joyce’s Dublin 

• Robert Burns to Ian Rankin in Edinburgh 

• Paris by the Book: tour the haunts of writer’s including Earnest Hemingway and Ezra Pound 

• Stockholm’s Millennium Tour to celebrate Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 

• Desolate Peak, Washington State’s inspiration for Jack Kerouac 

• Visit De Smet, South Dakota, to walk in the world of Laura Ingalls Wilder 

•A literary Tour of Portland Oregon, including Portland Arts and Lectures series 

• Discover the Fireside Poets of 19th Century Boston, including Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 

• Stroll through Greenwich Village to discover the haunts of • Henry James and Edith Wharton 

• Follow Teju Cole around New York City 

• Re trace Washington Irving’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” 

• Follow in the footsteps of Mark Twain in Hartford, Connecticut 

• Explore Kansas City Public Library in Missouri 

• Visit Oak Park, Illinois, during the weekend of July 17th to join Earnest Hemingway’s 8K Running of the Bulls 

• Wander around Los Angeles after Jim Harrison 

• Pablo Neruda is the focus for a tour of Santiago, Chile 

• Explore Yukon Territory, Canada, and practice fire lighting, inspired by Jack London 

ART THEMES 

•Explore the street art in Wynwood, Miami (second saturdays) 

• Join the Mural Challenge, Lexington, Kentucky 

• Claude Monet’s Rouen, France 

• Gloucester Harbor, Massachusetts (Winslow Homer, William Morris Hunt) 

• The Hudson River, Thomas Cole 

• Rhode Island with Martin Johnson Heade 

• Look Down Yosemite Valley with Albert Bierstadt 

• New Mexico through the eyes of Georgia O’Keeffe 

• Birdspotting with John James Audubon 

• Horatio McCulloch’s idealised Highlands, Scotland 

• Yorkshire with David Hockney 

• Yorkshire Sculpture Park 

• Recreate Richard Long’s A Line made By Walking in the Wiltshire countryside 

MUSICAL 

• Mendelssohn’s Scotland and Hebrides 

• The hills of the Italian Riviera, inspiration to Edward Elgar 

• Franz Liszt’s journey through Switzerland 

• Bryce Canyon, Utah, inspiration to Olivier Messiaen

• The South Pole, inspiration to Vaughan Williams and Peter Maxwell Davies 

• Explore the Atlas Mountains, Algeria with Gustav Holst 

• Tosca’s Rome 

• Beethoven’s Vienna 

• Claudio Monteverdi in Venice 

• Ocmulgee River Heritage Trail, Macon, Georgia to commemorate Otis Redding 

• Visit the Joshua Tree, California, which inspired U2 

• See who’s playing at Shrine of the Ages Auditorium 

Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona 

• Go to the unique Moab Music Festival in the Arches and Canyonlands National Parks, Utah 

• Recreate Kate Bush’s Wuthering Heights in Wiltshire