{"product_id":"9781914613326","title":"Tender Maps","description":"\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003e‘Of\nall the places where I feel the translucency of things, places that are thin\nfor me, bluebell woods are first among them.’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nSome travellers are driven by the need to scale a natural wonder, or to see a\ncity’s sights or a place of history. Others, like Alice Maddicott, travel in\nsearch of a particular scene, feeling or atmosphere, often inspired by music,\nliterature and art. Taking us deep into our emotional and creative responses to\nplace, this extraordinary book explores the author’s relentless travelling, from\nthe heat of Sicily to the mountains of Japan. With her uniquely lyrical\napproach to psycho-geography, Maddicott explores the relationship with\nlandscape that is the very essence of human creativity.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nFrom seventeenth-century salons of Paris to the underground culture and\ncrumbling balconies of modern Tbilisi, through writers as diverse as Italo\nCalvino and L. M. Montgomery and artists like Ana Mendieta and\neighteenth-century girls embroidering their lives, \u003ci\u003eTender Maps\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis\na beautifully  evocative book of travel,\nculture and imagination that transports readers in time and place.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e‘A rich and beguiling work of literary travel memoir that  nimbly tracks the wider contours of the world\nin terms of feeling, memory, introspection and the imagination.’ - Travis Elborough,\nauthor of \u003ci\u003eAtlas of Vanishing Places\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Alice Maddicott","offers":[{"title":"Global Book Sales |  Hardback | Cloth over boards |  2023-11-10","offer_id":44230059294975,"sku":"9781914613326","price":40.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_f2e90dc9-f0cb-48a2-be5b-d00b2614b5cd.jpg?v=1692996156","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781914613326","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}