The First Five
A NOVEL HOLIDAY
Travel Guidebooks

Planned by C.D. Miller and D.C. Carson

BOOK 1:Harry Potter Places

This is a travel guidebook for visiting the English and Scottish sites
where Harry Potter movies were filmed, as well as the real-world
locations JK Rowling referred to in her novels – such as London’s
King’s Cross London Underground station, where young wizards
and witches boarded the Hogwarts Express via Platform 9 ¾.

[King’s Cross station has encouraged tourist interest by putting up a
sign for Rowling’s fictional Platform 9 ¾, and facilitated a wonderful
Harry Potter photo opportunity by mounting half a luggage trolley
on the brick wall beneath it!]


Because the fans of Rowling’s novels include both children and adults,
Harry Potter Places is a family-oriented travel guidebook!

BOOKS 2 & 3:

Tolkien Travels: JRR’s England

A guide for visiting the many interesting and evocative locations associated with
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien’s life in England, including places such as:
The Eagle and Child Pub in Oxford, where Tolkien, CS Lewis, and other of
their many notable contemporaries regularly met as “The Inklings” –
an informal literary group.
The gravesite of John Ronald and his wife, Edith (“Beren and Luthien”).

This book will also provide directions to the English sites that inspired the locales
Tolkien created for Middle Earth; such as Warwickshire’s Rollright Stones,
the place believed responsible for Tolkien’s Barrow Downs descriptions.

Tolkien Travels: New Zealand’s Middle Earth

A travel guidebook for visiting the multitude of sites where Peter Jackson
filmed his Academy-Award-winning Lord of The Rings movie trilogy;
including both easily-accessible as well as remote locations.

Visitor reviews of the various “Tolkien Travel Packages” offered by
New Zealand tour companies will also be provided.

BOOK 4: Visit The Da Vinci Code

A travel guidebook based on Dan Brown’s bestselling Novel
and Ron Howard’s immensely popular Movie.

Part One;
Da Vinci Code Paris

A guide for visiting the novel’s historic Parisian sites; the movie’s
Parisian filming locations; and Château Villette in the French
countryside, which is both a real-world filming location as well as the
fictional home of Brown’s major character, Sir Leigh Teabing.

Part Two;
Da Vinci Code England

A guide for visiting the London locations associated with the novel
and its movie, as well as directions for visiting the many English
filming sites outside of London, such as Lincoln Cathedral,
where the Westminster Abbey interior scenes were shot.

Part Three;
Da Vinci Code Scotland

A guide for visiting Rosslyn Chapel
and Rosslyn Castle.

BOOK 5:

Outlandish Scotland Journey

A guide for visiting the real-world
Scottish locations described in
Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber,
and Voyager; as well as directions
for visiting the many Scottish locales
that inspired Gabaldon’s grandly
evocative fictional location descriptions.

The many Scottish settings common to Gabaldon’s first three novels extend from Inverness to Edinburgh.
Real-world locations include Culloden Battlefield, where Gabaldon’s James Alexander Malcolm MacKenzie Fraser intended to die on April 16th, 1746; Fort William, where “Jamie” was flogged by “Black Jack Randall”; and Holyroodhouse, located at the foot of Edinburgh’s Royal Mile.
Inspirational locations include the Dun Bonnet Cave near Foyers on Loch Ness, where the real-life “James Fraser of Foyers” lived for seven years after the Battle of Culloden; Castle Fraser in Aberdeenshire; and a well-preserved 18th century farmhouse in Perthshire that readily represents Lallybroch.

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