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Elizabeth Dunn | 92 comments Here it is June and I’m at less than 50,000 miles! I’ve read some great stuff along the way, though.

Lincoln in the Bardo,
Wash DC

to Lady in the Lake,
Baltimore
38 mi.

To Song of Solomon
(unnamed UP Mich. town, probably Marquette?)
+ 964 mi = 1002

To Clan of the Cave Bear
(near the Black Sea—sub.Varna, Bulgaria)
+ 5080 miles = 6,082

To Simon the Fiddler.
Victoria, TX.
+ 6,372 mi = 12,454

To Nora Webster
Wexford, Ireland
+ 4,688 miles = 17,142

To Somersetshire, England
Persuasian. (*) (I know, not technically historical fiction, but....)
+ 255 miles = 17,397

To Northamptonshire
Mansfield Park (*)
+ 173 miles = 17,570

To Greece
The house of Names
+ 1,922 miles = 19,492

To London
The Prince and the Pauper
+ 1837 mi. = 21,329

To Paris
A Tale of Two Cities
+329 mi. = 21,658

To Gloucestershire
Northanger Abbey (*)
+ 464 = 22,152 mi.

To Dover
David Copperfield (*)
+ 189 = 21,984

To Ontario
Fifth zbusiness
+ 3517 = 25501 mi.

To London
Great Expectations (*)
+ 5875 = 31376 mi

To Highbury (fictional; said to be 16 mi. from London)
Emma (*)
16 + 31392 mi.

To Ethiopia (inspiration for fictional Ishmaelia in E Africa)
Scoop (*)
+ 5510 mi. = 36,886

To Fairfax, Mn (approx location of fictional boarding school)
This Tender Land
+ 7791 = 44677 mi

To Pamplona
The Sun Also Rises (*)
+ 4374 = 49051


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