Inspired Traveller's Guides

Drawing from four books in White Lion's bestselling Inspired Traveller's Guides and with 10 newly commissioned entries, Cultural Places is an all-encompassing tour of the most culturally important places on the planet – be they literary, artistic, cinematic, gastronomic or musical.

Inspired Traveller's Guides: Literary Places takes you on an enlightening journey through the key locations of literature's best and brightest authors, movements and moments – brought to life through comprehensively researched text and stunning hand-drawn artwork. Travel journalist Sarah Baxter provides comprehensive and atmospheric outlines of the history and culture of 25 literary places around the globe, as well as how they intersect with the lives of the authors and the works that make them significant. Full-page colour illustrations instantly transport you to each location. You'll find that these places are not just backdrops to the tales told, but characters in their own right. Travel to the sun-scorched plains of Don Quixote's La Mancha, roam the wild Yorkshire moors with Cathy and Heathcliff or view Central Park through the eyes of J.D. Salinger's antihero. Explore the lush and languid backwaters of Arundhati Roy's Kerala, the imposing precipice of Joan Lindsay's Hanging Rock and the labyrinthine streets and sewers of Victor Hugo's Paris. Delve into this book to discover some of the world's most fascinating literary places and the novels that celebrate them.

Get back to nature and explore sites unspoilt by humankind with the latest addition to the “Inspired Traveller's Guide” series. We humans don't just love wild places. We need them; we need their scale, their breath, their drama and enigma. Wild places can be a balm and a solace; an escape or a returning; a best friend; an inner cleanse. And they can remind us of our unimportance in the world. Travel writer Sarah Baxter presents 25 untameable natural wonders that reveal the curious story of our wild planet and why we need to protect it. Despite all the advances of human civilisation, we've yet to come up with anything to rival the majesty of Lapland's snow-capped mountain summits, the haunting song of humpback whales in a Namibian paradise or the epic sculptural forms of Utah's vast Canyonlands. Escape to each of these unforgettable sites and more with “Wild Places”, an insightful and stunningly illustrated guide to all Mother Nature has to offer. Discover spectacular and little-known gems with visits to... • Great Dismal Swamp, USA • Canyonlands, USA • Great Bear Rainforest, Canada • Cenotes, Mexico • Galápagos Islands, Ecuador • Kaieteur Falls, Guyana • South Georgia, Atlantic Ocean • Ennerdale, England • Strumble Head, Wales • St Kilda, Scotland • Camargue, France • Sápmi, Lapland, Sweden • Green Belt, Germany • Wadden Sea, Netherlands • Stromboli, Italy • Las Medulas, Spain • Coa Valley, Portugal • Skeleton Coast, Namibia • Erg Chigaga, Morocco • Kinabatangan, Malaysia • Mount Siguniang, China • Raja Ampat, Indonesia • Gangkar Puensum, Bhutan • Wilpena Pound, Australia • Wahipounamu, New Zealand This is the perfect title for anyone who is fascinated by the marvels of the natural world.

Explore the landscapes and places that inspired great art: find peace in Monet's lily-filled garden oasis, climb Mount Fuji on a printmaker's pilgrimage, sail with Gauguin to the South Pacific to stretch your imagination, or contemplate light and the changing seasons on Chelsea Embankment. “Artistic Places” is a stunningly hand-illustrated, visionary guide for seekers of beauty, rare tales and cultural riches. Find yourself instantly transported to the places where great artists have sought refuge, found their inspiration and changed the course of art history forever. Susie Hodge, bestselling author and art historian, presents 25 famous and forgotten artistic destinations around the world, and connects these to the artists they inspired. In keeping with the Inspired Traveller's Guide series design, each entry is accompanied by specially commissioned illustrations from Amy Grimes which perfectly evoke the wonders that first attracted the masters, while Hodge delves into each location's curious history with insightful stories both in and beyond the canon. So, take a leaf out of your favourite artist's sketchbook and discover the places they loved best. Artists and locations include: • J.A.M Whistler in London, England • John Constable in Suffolk, England • Barbara Hepworth in St Ives, England • Paula Rego in Cascais and Estoril, Portugal • Pablo Picasso and Guernica, Spain • Salvador Dalí in Catalonia, Spain • Claude Monet in Giverny, France • Vincent van Gogh in Arles, France • Rene Magritte in Brussels, Belgium • Paul Klee in Bern, Switzerland • Michelangelo in Florence, Italy • Canaletto in Venice, Italy • Johannes Vermeer in Delft, Netherlands • Anni Albers in Dessau, Germany • Caspar David Friedrich in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains, Germany • Gustav Klimt and Lake Attersee, Austria • Edvard Munch in Oslo, Norway • Hilma af Klint and Lake Mälaren, Sweden • Henri Matisse in Tangier, Morocco • Hokusai on Mount Fuji, Japan • Paul Gauguin in Papeete and Papeari, Tahiti • Jean-Michel Basquiat in New York, USA • Grant Wood in Iowa, USA • Georgia O'Keeffe in New Mexico, USA • Frida Kahlo in Coyoacán, Mexico