Travis Elborough

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Follow in the footsteps of some of the world s most famous authors on the journeys which inspired their greatest works in this beautiful illustrated atlas Some truly remarkable works of literature have been inspired by writers spending time away from their typical surroundings From epic road trips and arduous treks into remote territories to cultural tours and sojourns in the finest hotels this book explores 35 influential journeys taken by literary greats and reveals the repercussions of those travels on the authors personal lives and the broader literary landscape Award winning author Travis Elborough brings each of these trips to life with fascinating insights into the stories behind the creation of some of the world s most famous literary creations including Dracula Moby Dick Murder on the Orient Express Madame Bovary The Talented Mr Ripley and Harry Potter and the Philosopher s Stone From Herman Melville s first whaling voyage in 1841 from New York to Liverpool to Jack Kerouac s on the road Odyssey which is now an iconic drive discover how these journeys imprinted themselves on some of the greatest literary minds of all time Complete with navigational notes colour photographs and commissioned maps the fresh insights within tell readers something

In Artists Journeys that Shaped Our World follow in the footsteps of some of the world s most famous painters and discover the journeys that influenced their work Join award winning author Travis Elborough as he explores some of the most inspiring travels of all time

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Follow in the footsteps of some of the world s most famous painters in this fascinating work from the Journeys of Note series Some truly remarkable works of art have been inspired by artists spending time away from their typical surroundings From epic road trips and arduous treks into remote territories to cultural tours and sojourns in the finest hotels this book explores 30 influential journeys taken by artistic greats and reveals the repercussions of those travels on the painters personal lives and the broader cultural landscape Award winning author Travis Elborough brings each of these trips to life with fascinating insights into the stories behind the creation of some of the world s most famous paintings including Henri Matisse s vivid paintings of Morocco Katsushika Hokusai s woodblock prints of Mount Fuji in Japan Marianne North s paintings of India and David Hockney s California pool paintings

Elegant and multi-focal. Glorious! Simon GarfieldIt will make you look at specs with fresh eyesNew StatesmanLively, engaging and admirably wide-rangingThe TimesFascinatingObserverThe humble pair of glasses might just be one of the worlds greatest inventions, allowing millions to see a world that might otherwise appear a blur. And yet how much do many of us really think about these things perched on the ends of our noses?Through the Looking Glasses traces the fascinating story of spectacles: from their inception as primitive visual aids for monkish scribes right through to todays designer eyewear and the augmented reality of Google Glass. There are encounters with ingenious medieval Italian glassmakers, myopic Renaissance rulers and spectacle-makers, as well as the silent movie star Harold Lloyd, the rocknroller Buddy Holly and the full-screen figure of Marilyn Monroe. This is a book about vision and the need for humanity to see clearly, and where the impulse to improve our eyesight has led us.

A fascinating, informative, revelatory book William Boyd, GuardianParks are such a familiar part of everyday life, you might be forgiven for thinking they have always been there. In fact, public parks are an invention. From their medieval inception as private hunting grounds through to their modern incarnation as public spaces of rest and relaxation, parks have been fought over by land-grabbing monarchs, reforming Victorian industrialists, hippies, punks, and somewhere along the way, the common folk trying to savour their single day of rest.In A Walk in the Park, Travis Elborough excavates the history of parks in all their colour and complexity. Loving, funny and impassioned, this is a timely celebration of a small wonder that in an age of swingeing cuts we should not take for granted.

In 1968 the worlds largest antique went to America. But how do you transport a 130-year-old bridge 3,000 miles?And why did Robert P. McCulloch, a multimillionaire oil baron and chainsaw-manufacturing king, buy it?Why did he ship it to a waterless patch of the Arizonan desert?Did he even get the right bridge? To answer these questions, its necessary to meet a peculiar cast.Fleet Street shysters · Revolutionary Radicals · Frock-coated industrialists · Disneyland designers · Thames dockers · Guinness Book of Records officials · The odd Lord Mayor · Bridge-building priests · Gun-toting U.S. sheriffs · An Apache Indian or two And a fraudster whose greatest trick was to convince the world he ever existedRoll up, then, for the story of one of the strangest events in Anglo-American relations. Curious, clever and sharp, this is history to delight in.

For nearly 60 years, since the arrival of the long-playing record in 1948, the album has provided the soundtrack to our lives. Our record collections, even if theyre on CD, or these days, an iPod, are personal treasure, revealing our loves, errors of jugdement and lapses in taste. Self-confessed music obsessive, Travis Elborough, explores the way in which particular albums are deeply embedded in cultural history, revered as works of art or so ubiqitous as to be almost invisible. But in the age of the iPod, when we can download an infinite number of single tracks and need never listen to a whole album ever again, does the concept of an album still mean anything? THE LONG-PLAYER GOODBYE is a brilliant piece of popular history and a celebration of the joy of records. If youve ever had a favourite album, youll love Travis Elboroughs warm and witty take on how vinyl changed our world.

Siga los pasos de algunos de los artistas más famosos del mundo: algunas obras de arte realmente excepcionales han sido inspiradas por artistas lejos de su entorno habitual. Desde interesantes viajes por mar y arduas caminatas por territorios remotos hasta rutas culturales y vacaciones veraniegas: 30 treinta influyentes viajes realizados por artistas celebres. Se analizan y revelan las repercusiones que han tenido esos viajes en las vidas personales de los artistas y en el panorama cultural en general. Un atlas que constituye una especie de nomenclator de viajes y lugares visitados por artistas de diversa indole y en diferentes etapas de sus vidas.El galardonado escritor Travis Elborough da vida a cada uno de estos viajes con fascinantes historias detras de la creacion de algunas de las obras mas famosas del mundo, como las vividas pinturas de Marruecos de Henri Matisse, los cuadros de piscinas de David Hockney, la influyente serie de grabados del monte Fuji de Katsushika Hokusai y las ilustraciones botanicas de Marianne North realizadas a lo largo de su estancia de un año en la India.

The seaside, like football and the railways, is a distinctly English and largely nineteenth century invention. At the Festival of Britain in 1951, a replica of a seafront represented hope and modernity - once the preserve of the sickly elite, the seaside had become one of the great English egalitarian institutions. But when the advent of cheap flights allowed us to go and see how the rest of the world did it - with better weather and sandier beaches - our boarding houses and bandstands slowly rotted away. As the economy forced a reassessment of our holidaying habits, resorts from Morecambe to Bournemouth enjoyed a renaissance. Capitalising on the uniquely English combination of irony and pride, the English Riviera has been reborn. In many ways, our national character has been defined by our relationship with the seaside - and in tracing its development, we can see how our ideas about health, welath and happiness evolved. Our aspirations and snobbery, our attitudes to sex, our keen sense of fair play, our chequered relationship with national pride and our ability to laugh at ourselves have all been played out against a backdrop of stormy skies, pebbly beaches and sticks of rock. The seaside is the place we go to get better, to let our hair down, to downsize, to retire, to take drugs and to hide. Ranging from Agatha Christie to the Prince Regent via Billy Butlin and Brighton Rock, Travis Elborough explores how a coastline peppered with quasi-Oriental piers makes us quintessentially English. Erudite, charming and surprising, Wish You Were Here is a gloriously unorthodox social history of a nation of islanders.

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Travis Elborough te lleva en un viaje a todos los rincones del mundo, en busca de lo perdido, lo que se desvanece y lo que ya desapareció. Descubre antiguas sedes de poder y civilizaciones por largo tiempo olvidadas a traves de la ciudad maya de Palenque; y devela increibles lugares ocultos, como el pueblo hundido de Adaminaby, que reaparece lentamente tras haber sido abandonado. Desde los efectos dramaticos del aumento del nivel del mar hasta paisajes naturales y maravillas hechas por el ser humano que siguen en peligro, imagina como se vio alguna vez el mundo mientras descubres lugares que han desaparecido de los atlas modernos.Con esplendidos mapas e impresionantes fotografias, Atlas de lugares en desaparicion nos muestra esos espacios tal como fueron y como se ven hoy, en una guia fascinante a las tierras perdidas y a la fragilidad de la relacion con el mundo que nos rodea.