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A beautifully illustrated guide to over seventy-five important journeys in world literature, spanning more than thirty countries and twenty-five hundred years From Homer’s Odyssey, Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, and Cervantes’s Don Quixote to Melville’s Moby-Dick, Kerouac’s On the Road, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah, some of the most powerful works of fiction center on a journey. Extending to the ends of the earth and spanning from ancient Greece to today, Literary Journeys is an enthralling book that takes you on a voyage of discovery through some of the most important journeys in literature. In original essays, an international team of literary critics, scholars, and other writers explore exciting, dangerous, tragic, and uplifting journeys in more than seventy-five classic and popular works of fiction from around the world. Chronologically arranged and gorgeously illustrated throughout with paintings, engravings, photographs, and maps in full color, this captivating book will appeal to readers who have travelled widely, who are planning a trip, or who love armchair travel. Contributors include Robert McCrum, Susan Shillinglaw, Maya Jaggi, Robert Holden, Suzanne Conklin Akbari, Alan Taylor, Michael Bourne, Sarah Mesle—and dozens more.

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"""Richly illustrated. . . . [Literary Journeys is] a pleasingly instructive survey for fans of literary travel."" * Kirkus Reviews *"

""Punchy takes on celebrated literature . . . accompanied by plentiful photos of artwork inspired by the books or the locales discussed in them. The result is a trip well worth taking."" * Publishers Weekly * ""A pleasingly instructive survey for fans of literary travel."" * Kirkus Reviews * ""Beautifully curated and exquisitely illustrated. . . . I highly recommend John McMurtrie’s Literary Journeys. The author has created a marvelous tribute to Western literature that not only maps the journeys of celebrated literary characters but also encourages us to trace and retrace their footprints.""---:eonora Cravotta, American Spectator ""This handsomely illustrated compilation of essays and illustrations about travel-related novels will inform and inspire armchair travelers who like to explore beyond bestseller lists and must-see sites."" * Afar Magazine *

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John McMurtrie is an editor at McSweeney’s Publishing and former books editor at the San Francisco Chronicle. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and Literary Hub.

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