COMP CLOSED: WIN ‘Literary Journeys’ by John McMurtrie

This week, we’re giving away three copies of Literary Journeys by John McMurtrie. Literary Journeys explores 75 iconic journeys from classic and modern literature. Through essays and illustrations, it captures how travel shapes characters and narratives, making it perfect for literature and travel enthusiasts alike. Here’s the blurb:

A beautifully illustrated guide to over 75 important journeys in world literature, spanning more than 30 countries and 2500 years

From Homer’s Odyssey, Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, and Cervantes’s Don Quixote to Melville’s Moby-Dick, Kerouac’s On the Road, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah, some of the most powerful works of fiction centre on a journey. Extending to the ends of the earth and spanning from ancient Greece to today, Literary Journeys is an enthralling book that takes you on a voyage of discovery through some of the most important journeys in literature. In original essays, an international team of literary critics, scholars, and other writers explore exciting, dangerous, tragic, and uplifting journeys in more than 75 classic and popular works of fiction from around the world. Chronologically arranged and gorgeously illustrated throughout with paintings, engravings, photographs, and maps in full colour, this captivating book will appeal to readers who have travelled widely, who are planning a trip, or who love armchair travel.

Contributors include Robert McCrum, Susan Shillinglaw, Maya Jaggi, Robert Holden, Suzanne Conklin Akbari, Alan Taylor, Michael Bourne, Sarah Mesle—and dozens more.

If you’d like to win a copy, simply enter your details in the form below. Three lucky people will win a copy!

Entries close midday (Syd/Melb time) Monday 9 December 2024. Winners will be notified within a week of the competition closing.

GOOD LUCK!

THIS COMPETITION HAS NOW CLOSED. THANKS FOR YOUR ENTRIES! WINNERS WILL BE CONTACTED BY EMAIL AND ANNOUNCED IN OUR NEWSLETTER.