Where the Tigers Were: Travels Through Literary LandscapesFrom Venice to Vietnam, from the Welsh coast to Cairo, Don Meredith has travelled in the wake of 20th-century writers, using their novels and poems as guides, as another wayfarer might turn to Fodor's or the Guide Bleu. Canvassing the works of authors especially attuned to a sense of place, the author has gone in search of the backstreets, basilicas, cafes, piazzas and countrysides that figured so powerfully in their writings. Part travelogue, part literary study, this text is the author's account of these explorations into the impact of place in 12 literary classics. |
Contents
3 | 29 |
4 | 47 |
5 | 92 |
6 | 102 |
Giorgio Bassani on the Walls of the Angels | 111 |
8 | 124 |
9 | 134 |
10 | 153 |
The Only Mzungu Afoot | 172 |
12 | 182 |
Selected Bibliography | 199 |
Common terms and phrases
Africa Akaba Amman Antonia Arabia Arabs Aschenbach Auda Azrak Bassani beneath Beni Sakhr Blixen blue Bror café Cairo camels canal cathedral Cavafy Cavafy's child Chinese Cholon church coffee corner cross crowded Damascus dark Denys Denys Finch Hatton Deraa desert door dozen drink Durrell Durrell's Dylan Thomas East English eyes farm Ferrara Finch Hatton Finzi-Contini Fowler French garden gate Greek Greene hills Hotel Indochina Karen Karen Blixen Laugharne Lawrence Lawrence Durrell Lawrence's lived look Marguerite Duras Micòl morning mosque Moustafa Naguib Mahfouz Ngong night North China Lover novel Palace pass Phat Diem Phuong Piazza pink Pyle Quiet American river road rue Catinat Sadec Saigon says Sharia shops stone Sugar Street Syrian T. E. Lawrence tall Thanh tower town trees Turkish Turks turned Venice Viet Minh village Vinh Long visa Wadi walk walls watch woman women wrote young
References to this book
Essay and General Literature Index Minnie Earl Sears,Marian Shaw,Dorothy Herbert West No preview available - 2001 |