The Book Lover's Bucket List: A Tour of Great British Literature de Caroline Taggart

Cet essai-guide touristique autour de la littérature anglaise est publié par la British Library et préfacé par Tracy Chevalier.
Je l'ai reçu il y a peu en "petit" format hardback (il existe aussi en grand format).

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Exploring the gardens, monuments, museums, and churches with walks both urban and rural, from the Brontë parsonage in Haworth to Zadie Smith's North London and Shakespeare's Stratford, The Book Lover's Bucket List takes you through some 100 wonderfully described literary sites and landscapes, complete with color destination photographs and illustrations from the British Library collections.

Start with Chaucer, Dickens, and Larkin in Westminster Abbey. Spend an afternoon at Colliers Wood Nature Reserve in Nottinghamshire and take in the lake D. H. Lawrence described as "all grey and visionary, stretching into the moist, translucent vista of trees and meadow." Venture south to Cornwall and work your way up to the Scottish Highlands, taking detours to Northern Ireland in the west and Norfolk in the east.

There are gardens, monuments, museums, churches, and a surprising quantity of stained glass. There are walks both urban and rural, where you can explore real landscapes or imaginary haberdasher’s shops. There‘s the club where Buck’s Fizz was invented and a pub where you can eat Sherlock’s Steak & Ale Pie. And there’s a railway station where you can stroke the muzzle of one of the world’s most famous and endearing bears.

Wherever you are in the United Kingdom, you're never far from something associated with a good book.

Je le savoure au compte-gouttes en ce moment et je dois dire que je me régale. L'ouvrage nous présente des lieux bien connus mais aussi des "spots" beaucoup moins touristiques. Le ton est très witty, ce qui rend la lecture extrêmement agréable. Et la mise en page me plaît beaucoup aussi.
J'essaie de vous en reparler bientôt mais vraiment, c'est un livre on ne peut plus whoopsy daisien. 

Ça a l'air super intéressant !

Oh waw, il a l'air superbe! Un livre qui doit se déguster petit à petit et donner plein d'idées de voyage

J'ai acheté il y a quelques années Britain by the book, de Oliver Tearle, mais je ne l'ai toujours pas lu



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What caused Dickens to leap out of bed one night and walk 30 miles from London to Kent?
How did a small town on the Welsh borders become the second-hand bookshop capital of the world?
Why did a jellyfish persuade Evelyn Waugh to abandon his suicide attempt in North Wales?

A multitude of curious questions are answered in Britain by the Book, a fascinating travelogue with a literary theme, taking in unusual writers’ haunts and the surprising places that inspired some of our favourite fictional locations. We’ll learn why Thomas Hardy was buried twice, how a librarian in Manchester invented the thesaurus as a means of coping with depression, and why Agatha Christie was investigated by MI5 during the Second World War. The map of Britain that emerges is one dotted with interesting literary stories and bookish curiosities.

Il donne envie ! J'adorerais passer 1 mois en Angleterre et en faire le tour... Pour l'instant, je me contente de la perspective de quelques jours à Bath l'année prochaine.

Voilà un livre qui fait bien envie Emjy ! Et ça doit être agréable de le lire au compte-goutte en effet. Je note en tout cas.