Places: A Travel Companion for Music and Art Lovers [Hardcover]

Robert Craft (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 2000

Art-loving armchair travellers, as well as the more devoted kind, will delight in this book as much for its intelligence and sensitivity as its detailed descriptions both of the travails and the joys of travel.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 160 pages
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson (June 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0500019908
• ISBN-13: 978-0500019900
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.6 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,991,803 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good, but bring a dictionary, August 2, 2000

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W. M. Shipman "Music Lover" (Gloucester, VA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Places: A Travel Companion for Music and Art Lovers (Hardcover)

A good read to be sure, and it will certainly make you want to see more of the world. I dusted off my passport before making it halfway through the book. However, I also had to dust off my trusty unabridged dictionary. Craft's diction is superb, but I found plenty of occasions to have to turn to the dictionary for words that have fallen from the common vernacular. Is it worth reading? Absolutely, his travels are only heightened by the research he has put in on the locales discussed in the book. You may just read through the entire thing in a sitting, only pausing to look up those delightful (if rarely used) words.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars PLACES, A TRAVEL GUID FOR MUSIC AND ART LOVERS, August 6, 2000

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MIchael Dirda (Washinton Post Book World, August 5,2000) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Places: A Travel Companion for Music and Art Lovers (Hardcover)

Places stylishly mixes travel observations, historical essays and remembered conversations. I read it nearly without stopping and still wished that there were five of six hundred pages to go. So be warned: Places is so good that it won't last a quiet weekend, let alone a two-week family holiday at the beach. Of course, you could always bring along Stravinsky: Chrinicle of a Friendship, Current Convictions, The Moment of Existence or any of Craft's other half dozen or so books. If you like his meticulous and well-stocked mind as much as I do, you'll eventually want to read everything he's written.

Michael Dirda, Washington Post Book World (e-mail address [e-mail])