Literary Traveler Holiday Gifts
Welcome to the Literary Traveler Holiday Gift Guide. We want to help you find a gift for that special person who loves to read and loves to travel just as…
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Amanda
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The Tumultuous Relationship Between Dante and the City of Florence
by Rachel McGinnis Dante Alighieri, perhaps one of the greatest poets of the medieval period, was born in 1265 into an affluent Italian family. Having nobility, ancient lineage, and a…
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Rome’s Ultimate Guidebook: I, Claudius
by Jennifer Eisenlau Here is a novel idea for a visit to Rome: replace the guidebook with literary fiction. I, Claudius will prepare you for great buildings, art, and personalities–historical fiction brings…
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Thomas Mann’s Munich: A Lone Trip to Germany
by Sosig Mardirosian All night it had snowed, and by morning the rooftops were white and the cobbles along the narrow streets of Regensburg were not yet swept. I walked…
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Heavyweights: When F. Scott Fitzgerald Met Gene Tunney
by Lisa Kerr A.J. Liebling, the writer who first called boxing “the sweet science,” once said, “A boxer, like a writer, must stand alone.” For centuries it seems, writers have…
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The Fortress of His Mind: Charles d’Orleans’ Capitivity in The Tower of London
by Erin Byrne I felt claustrophobic inside the square room deep inside the thick stone cavern of the White Tower. There in the huge complex of the Tower of London,…
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Shadows of The Da Vinci Code in Southern France
by Ken Harbinson As it happened, my wife was reading The Da Vinci Code as I was simultaneously absorbed in travel guides for our trip to the southwest of France. …
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‘Bad Boy Poet’ Francois Villon in Medieval and Modern Paris
by Alysa Salzberg The first time I read Francois Villon’s works, I discovered a world I had yet to unearth, however, knew by heart. One of France’s greatest medieval poets,…
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The Adorable Madeline: A Parisian Adventurer
by Jennifer Ciotta In an old house in Paris that was covered with vines lived twelve little girls in two straight lines. Austrian-born Madeline creator Ludwig Bemelmans penned these words…
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One Nanny, Hold the Spoonful of Sugar: The REAL Mary Poppins and Her Creator, P.L. Travers
by Mallory Sweeney Equipped with her time-defying umbrella and magical medicine, Mary Poppins has been one of most beloved figures of the modern children’s literature canon. The offbeat-nurturing nanny first…
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