'A compelling way of looking at the world' TLS
WHAT DO WE MEAN WHEN WE TALK ABOUT ATMOSPHERE?
Some travellers are driven by the need to scale a natural wonder, to see a city's 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 author's own relentless travelling. From the heat of Sicily to the mountains of Japan, this is a uniquely lyrical approach to psycho-geography.
As Maddicott explores this relationship with landscape that is the very essence of human creativity, she transports readers to seventeenth-century salons of Paris and the crumbling balconies of modern Tbilisi, in the company of writers and artists such as Italo Calvino, LM Montgomery, PJ Harvey and Ana Mendieta.
Tender Maps is a beautifully evocative book of travel, culture and imagination.
| ISBN: | 9781914613654 |
| Publication date: | 7th March 2024 |
| Author: | Alice Maddicott |
| Publisher: | September an imprint of Duckworth Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 320 pages |
| Genres: |
Travel writing Landscapes / seascapes Social geography Emotions and emotional intelligence Memoirs |
'A compelling way of looking at the world' TLS
WHAT DO WE MEAN WHEN WE TALK ABOUT ATMOSPHERE?
Some travellers are driven by the need to scale a natural wonder, to see a city's 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 author's own relentless travelling. From the heat of Sicily to the mountains of Japan, this is a uniquely lyrical approach to psycho-geography.
As Maddicott explores this relationship with landscape that is the very essence of human creativity, she transports readers to seventeenth-century salons of Paris and the crumbling balconies of modern Tbilisi, in the company of writers and artists such as Italo Calvino, LM Montgomery, PJ Harvey and Ana Mendieta.
Tender Maps is a beautifully evocative book of travel, culture and imagination.
Tender Maps features in the following genres: Travel writing, Landscapes / seascapes, Social geography, Emotions and emotional intelligence, Memoirs
Tender Maps is available in Paperback, Hardback
Tender Maps was written by Alice Maddicott and published by September an imprint of Duckworth Books
Tender Maps has 320 pages
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