June Travel Kit: Legendary Places

Welcome to the June TravelKIT. This month we're traveling to Legendary Places, both imaginative and special real places.

Here's a fun list of places you can visit: https://boredomtherapy.com/legendary-places-still-exist/

Be imaginative and have fun.

Don't forget to update the wiki with your reads: https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/Travelkit#June:_Legendary_places

Let me look through my shelves...

I'm not sure if I will get to it, but my choice for this category is "The Orphans of El Dorado" (no touchstone) by Milton Hatoum

I have Elizabeth Peters' books on Egypt. I also have The Odyssey.

I'm guessing that Discworld counts, so I'm going with The Light Fantastic.

If you're interested in Petra, Jordon, might I suggest Married to a Bedouin by Marguerite van Geldermalsen. This is a memoir written by a New Zealander woman who met and married a Bedouin and raised her family in Petra. I met the author while touring Petra and was very interested in her life story.

I am most likely to read
Lady of Sherwood / Jennifer Roberson (Sherwood Forest)

An alternate (Salem, Mass) is:
Deliverance From Evil / Frances Hill (touchstone is not working quite correctly...)

I'm pretty sure I have them both in print.

I'm thinking of The Map of True Places which takes place in current day Salem, but her books are rich with Salem history. I've read The Lace Reader and The Fifth Petal but for some reason missed this one. I've been meaning to go back. It is not a series, but some of the same characters appear in each book. She's and excellent writer.

Anyone interested in a non-fiction about the town of Salem might like Season with the Witch.

I am planning to read Imagined London by Anna Quindlen.

I've read The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett. It takes place in Discworld and is the second of the series. Lots of fun, including a new character named Cohen the Barbarian.

July Thread is here https://www.librarything.com/topic/321588

Lady of Sherwood / Jennifer Roberson
4 stars

King Richard the Lionheart has died and his brother John is now king. The Sheriff of Nottingham is desperate to be sure he is still employed. Robin Hood and his friends, once pardoned by King Richard, are now outlaws once again, and must hide in Sherwood Forest. The Sheriff is upset with Marian and wants revenge. Robin’s father is not healthy, but the two don’t see eye-to-eye on anything.

I liked this much better than the first one. It took a short bit at the start to get “into” it, but once I did, I really liked this one.

My legendary place was the famous abbey, as in Le mont-St-Michel et l'énigme du dragon. It is a truly magical place, but the book was less stellar. Too much theology and philosophy.

Not sure if this counts, but one of the short stories in The Shadow Over Innsmouth and Other Stories of Horror takes place in Cairo, right at the pyramids and the Sphinx, which I would count as a legendary place, but it's only one short story...