A study of literary tourism in North America as well as Britain, and a unique exploration of popular response to writers, literary house museums, and the landscapes or "countries" associated with their lives and works.
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Booth's detailed description and reappraisal of the neglected genre is original ... Written for a broad audience in a communal voice, with engaging narration that mixes intimacy and distance, topo-biography is proposed, half-seriously, as a model for narrowing the gap between highbrow and middlebrow.
