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Before Nick Carraway was attracted into Daisy and Gatsby's sparkling, champagne-fueled world in The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald vacationed in the French Riviera, where a little inexperienced lighthouse winked at ships coming. Before the nameless lovers began their illicit affair in The Fan, Marguerite Duras embarked upon her own scandalous romance amidst the metropolitan avenues of Saigon. And before readers were terrified with a tentacled dragon-man called Cthulhu, H. P. Lovecraft was enthralled by the Industrial Trust tower - the 26-account skyscraper that makes in the skyline of Providence, Rhode Island. Based on the favorite New York Times travel column, Footsteps is an anthology of literary pilgrimages, checking out the geographic muses behind some of history's greatest authors. From the "dangerous, dusty and seductive" avenues of Naples, the environment for Elena Ferrante's famous Neapolitan books, to the "rock arches, creaky oaken gates, and riverside paths" of Oxford, the background for Alice's activities in Wonderland, Footsteps requires a fresh method of literary tourism, attractive to book lovers and travel fanatics alike.
