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Brainstorming Potential Literary Pilgrimages

"The old adage is that books can be transportive—that readers can get lost in the world of sentences and paragraphs, scenes and ideas. This can be literally true when readers retrace the steps of an author or character in a three-dimensional place they’ve only seen in either their mind’s eye or in small, black font. And that experience can be transformative, too." -Jessica Leigh Hester

How to Take a Literary Pilgrimage in the Real World by Jessica Leigh Hester
MARCH 12, 2019 from Atlas Obscura
12 Literary Pilgrimages
12 examples of literary pilgrimages all over the world.
From Mental Floss
Literary pilgrimages in the South
10 literary destinations that will put you in touch with some of the South’s best and most beloved writers.
(Published in Country Roads magazine)
Keeping the Memory of Zora Neale Hurston Alive in a Small Florida City
The preservation of a heritage trail, where the author and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston spent the last years of her life, takes a whole community.
Get to know the real Montréal with these 15 great books
The storied streets of Montréal have inspired writers the world over – they've especially inspired writers who have called Montréal home over the years.
Twelve of the best books set in Wales
Pan Macmillan (one of the largest UK book publishers) shares a list of some favourite books set in or inspired by Wales.
OneSearch keyword search: "Rio de Janeiro" culture

Rio de Janeiro: A Food Biography by Marcia Zoladz
ISBN: 9781442252325
Publication Date: 2016-09-01
From fish soup to caipirinha, the culinary traditions of Rio de Janeiro come alive in this rich and sumptuous tour of its people and the foods they cook, eat, love, and enjoy. In the last four centuries of its history, the inhabitants of Rio de Janeiro created a lifestyle that is unique and has been much admired ...

Going on (literary) pilgrimage : the development of literary trails with particular reference o KwaZulu-Natal
Literary tourism, of which the literary trail is an integral part, is a relatively new phenomenon. As South Africa's tourism market grows, new avenues of interest have emerged, and literary tourism has become a potential growth area. This article draws from the experience of the Literary Tourism in KwaZulu-Natal research project, operational over the past five years, and it explores the phenomenon of the literary trail. The article seeks, first, to understand the literary trail historically as a kind of secular pilgrimage to visit sites associated with writers and imagined spaces.
A literary pilgrimage
Diane Jacobs describes an eight-day trip along the southeastern coast of Norway in the footsteps of the 18th-century British author Mary Wollstonecraft. Wollstonecraft had made this journey two centuries earlier and movingly described it in her last finished book, ''Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark.''
A literary pilgrimage to London's Bloomsbury (New York Times )
"What cuts the deepest channels in our lives," Leonard Woolf once wrote, "are the different houses in which we live." For Woolf, as for his wife, Virginia Woolf, and their circle of literary and artistic friends, many of these channels converged in the district of London that surrounds the British Museum: Bloomsbury.
Literary pilgrimages bring pages of beloved books to life for Minnesotans
When a book captures your imagination, a literary pilgrimage can bring it to life.
By Kim Ode Star Tribune
January 3, 2017

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