# Tender Maps - Hardcover

by **Alice Maddicott** (Author)

_'Of  
all the places where I feel the translucency of things, places that are thin  
for me, bluebell woods are first among them.'_

  
Some travellers are driven by the need to scale a natural wonder, or to see a  
city's sights or a place of history. Others, like Alice Maddicott, travel in  
search of a particular scene, feeling or atmosphere, often inspired by music,  
literature and art. Taking us deep into our emotional and creative responses to  
place, this extraordinary book explores the author's relentless travelling, from  
the heat of Sicily to the mountains of Japan. With her uniquely lyrical  
approach to psycho-geography, Maddicott explores the relationship with  
landscape that is the very essence of human creativity.

  
From seventeenth-century salons of Paris to the underground culture and  
crumbling balconies of modern Tbilisi, through writers as diverse as Italo  
Calvino and L. M. Montgomery and artists like Ana Mendieta and  
eighteenth-century girls embroidering their lives, _Tender Maps_ is  
a beautifully evocative book of travel,  
culture and imagination that transports readers in time and place.

  
**'A rich and beguiling work of literary travel memoir that nimbly tracks the wider contours of the world  
in terms of feeling, memory, introspection and the imagination.' - Travis Elborough,  
author of _Atlas of Vanishing Places_**

### Author Biography

Alice Maddicott is a  
writer and artist from the West Country, where she also works on creative  
learning projects, currently for The Salisbury Museum. She has published poetry  
and received site-specific art commissions. Her first non-fiction book was the  
illustrated essay _Cat Women: An Exploration of Feline Friendships and  
Lingering Superstitions_.

**Number of Pages:** 320

**Dimensions:** 1.4 x 8.4 x 5.3 IN

**Publication Date:** October 31, 2023

## Details

- **Price:** 26.95 USD
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- **Type:** Books
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