Tender Maps

'Of<BR>all the places where I feel the translucency of things, places that are thin<BR>for me, bluebell woods are first among them.' <BR>Some travellers are driven by the need to scale a natural wonder, or to see a<BR>city's sights or a place of history. Others, like Alice Maddicott, travel in<BR>search of a particular scene, feeling or atmosphere, often inspired by music, <BR>literature and art. Taking us deep into our emotional and creative responses to<BR>place, this extraordinary book explores the author's relentless travelling, from<BR>the heat of Sicily to the mountains of Japan. With her uniquely lyrical<BR>approach to psycho-geography, Maddicott explores the relationship with<BR>><BR>From seventeenth-century salons of Paris to the underground culture and<BR>crumbling balconies of modern Tbilisi, through writers as diverse as Italo<BR>Calvino and L. M. Montgomery and artists like Ana Mendieta and<BR>eighteenth-century girls embroidering their lives, Tender Maps is<BR>a beautifully evocative book of travel, <BR>><BR>'A rich and beguiling work of literary travel memoir that nimbly tracks the wider contours of the world<BR>in terms of feeling, memory, introspection and the imagination.' - Travis Elborough, <BR>author of Atlas of Vanishing Places