In the Steps of Thomas Hardy - Softcover

Edwards, Anne-Marie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0972121730 ISBN 13: 9780972121736

Publisher: Jones Books, 2003

Synopsis

This travel guide features 18 walking tours of Thomas Hardy's England illustrated with photographs and maps.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

Few writers have captured the spirit of rural life and the majestic setting of an English landscape as brilliantly as Thomas Hardy.

Much of the vivid pastoral scenery portrayed in the writings of Thomas Hardy remains today as it was in Victorian England. We can still walk in the footsteps of Thomas Hardy and his characters over windswept uplands, through ancient woodlands and quaint villages, and discover that remarkably little has changed since they formed the settings for his novels. When we open the pages of this book we are taken back into the world that Hardy knew and loved.

Visit scenes from Thomas Hardy's novels and life including

--Hardy's thatched cottage in Higher Bockhampton, his boyhood home

--Immortal Egdon Heath, the inspiration for the brooding landscape of The Return of the Native

--Historic Dorchester, the town fictionalized in The Mayor of Casterbridge

--Puddletown, the model for the picturesque Weatherbury in Far from the Madding Crowd

--Frome Valley, home of the golden meadows where Tess and Angel Clare fell in love in Tess of the d'Urbervilles

And many more.

About the Author:

Anne-Marie Edwards is the author of numerous travel guides exploring the English countryside. She has written and broadcasted programs on both Jane Austen and traveling in England for BBC radio and television.

About this edition

• Publisher: Jones Books
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0972121730
• ISBN 13: 9780972121736
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208