- Publisher: Tauris Parke
- Year: 2020
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 336pp
- Illustrated: Yes
- Dimensions: 221x143mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.5kg
- ISBN: 9781788312066
- Product code: 531111
Conan Doyle's Wide World
Sherlock Holmes and Beyond
Andrew Lycett New Hardback Illustrated
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The creator of Sherlock Holmes was an inveterate traveller from an early age: at sixteen he spent a year at a school in Austria, making his way home via Basel and Paris. Based on Doyle’s memoirs and articles, biographer Andrew Lycett has assembled this account of the writer’s journeys in the Arctic, the Americas, Africa, India and Australasia, revealing the acute observation of place that informed his fiction.
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With fascinating extracts from his own writings, this book reveals the captivating travels and adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle - the creator of Sherlock Holmes.
Arthur Conan Doyle was not simply the creator of the world's greatest detective; he was also an intrepid traveler and extraordinary travel writer. His descriptions of his journeys and adventures - which took him to the Arctic and the Alps, throughout Africa, Australia and North America, and across every ocean in between - are full of insight, humour and exceptional evocations of place.
Until now, these captivating travelogues have never been gathered together. In this ground-breaking book, Andrew Lycett, Conan Doyle's celebrated biographer, collects and annotates the best of his writings from around the world, which illuminate not just the places he visited, but the man himself.
Arthur Conan Doyle was not simply the creator of the world's greatest detective; he was also an intrepid traveler and extraordinary travel writer. His descriptions of his journeys and adventures - which took him to the Arctic and the Alps, throughout Africa, Australia and North America, and across every ocean in between - are full of insight, humour and exceptional evocations of place.
Until now, these captivating travelogues have never been gathered together. In this ground-breaking book, Andrew Lycett, Conan Doyle's celebrated biographer, collects and annotates the best of his writings from around the world, which illuminate not just the places he visited, but the man himself.
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The creator of Sherlock Holmes was an inveterate traveller from an early age: at sixteen he spent a year at a school in Austria, making his way home via Basel and Paris. Based on Doyle’s memoirs and articles, biographer Andrew Lycett has assembled this account of the writer’s journeys in the Arctic, the Americas, Africa, India and Australasia, revealing the acute observation of place that informed his fiction.
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