Inspired Journeys
Travel Writers in Search of the Muse
Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2016]
Format: Book
Description: ix, 264 pages ; 22 cm
Full of humor, profundity, and obsession, these are tales of writers on peregrine paths. Some set out in search of legends or artistic inspiration; others seek spiritual epiphany or fulfillment of a promise. Their journeys lead them variously to Dracula's castle, Laura Ingalls Wilder's prairie, the Grimms' fairy-tale road, Mayan temples, Nathaniel West's California, the Camino de Santiago trail, Scott's Antarctica, the Marquis de Sade's haunted manor, or the sacred city of Varanasi. All of these pilgrimages are worthy journeys--redemptive and serious. But a time-honored element of pilgrimage is a suspension of rules, and there is absurdity and exuberance here as well.
Contents:
Introduction / Brian Bouldrey -- Part I. Chasing the muse -- Golden Friendship Club / David Stuart MacLean -- Little log houses for you and me / Kimberly Meyer -- The way of the white clouds / Trebor Healey -- Hill of dreams / Charles Coe -- In the huts / Susan Fox Rogers -- At home and abroad with the Marquis de Sade / John Beckman -- The terriblest poet / Brian Bouldrey -- The incompetent pilgrim / Marta Maretich -- Part II. Carrying the bones -- Driving the fairy-tale road / Raphael Kadushin -- Buen camino / Sharman Apt Russell -- In soft panic / Jonathan Monroe Geltner -- An accidental pilgrimage / Russell Scott Valentino -- At the grave of Sadie Thorpe / Miles Harvey -- The place between / Jivin Misra -- What means go? / Lucy Jane Bledsoe -- The Chevra / Goldie Goldbloom -- The end of the world & its beginning / Rachel Jamison Webster.
ISBN:
9780299309404
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TRAVEL Writing Ins | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |