Collected Essays 4: Travel

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Read HPL's fiction? Worked your way through the letters and poetry? Round out your Lovecraftian reading with HPL's collected essays. 

Far from being a recluse, H. P. Lovecraft traveled widely -- ranging as far north as Quebec, as far south as Florida and Louisiana, and as far west as Ohio. He wrote interestingly and at length about these expeditions.

Collected here are all HPL's formal travelogues, including "Vermont-A First Impression" (1927), "Observations on Several Parts of America" (1928), "Travels in the Provinces of America" (1929), and "An Account of a Visit to Charleston" (1930).

Also included is A Description of the Town of Quebeck, in New France, Lately Added to His Britannick Majesty's Dominions, which, at 75,000 words, was Lovecraft's longest work. As a bonus, all of Lovecraft's hand-drawn maps and illustrations of the regions he visited are reproduced.

Paperback, 300 pages, indexed.

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Jeremy L
If you like maps and to know of places.

You should highly consider buying this book, it's filled with tid bits of information on the areas he visited!

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Monica Wasserman
Lovecraft, the tour guide and historian.

The collected essays of Lovecraft's antiquarian travels not only shares a great wealth of history of the visited provinces, but particularly, the essays displays a great essence of Lovecraft's 18th century gentlemanly persona. It is plainly visible by the true archaic english written style that Lovecraft thoroughly enjoyed describing at every afforded moment to praise about His Britannick Majesty's former hold of America. In truth, this is a unique set of essays. I have personally highlighted many passages to bookmark for a time when travel is freely and openly achievable. There is a sense of walking alongside him and experiencing with him the very places he is describing, which I would like to note that it is not an impression one receives while reading Sonia Greene's travelogue of European glimpses. Although these essays are purely non-fiction, it was amazing to read how Lovecraft's imagination knew no boundary, and flowed well over into certain descriptions, such as how certain vistas or some sparkling spire elicited fancies of an otherworldly dreamland. All in all, this is a nice addition to any Lovecraftian library!

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