Putting aside stories with fictional settings and travel guides meant to sell you on a place, what is a book that gave you the desire to visit the setting of said book?
For me, I read a Moveable Feast by Hemingway and plan to visit Paris because of it.
I also read Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil and it sold me on Savannah, Georgia.
by themightytouch
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a reader’s digest.
Pretty much any location named in a John Gierach book.
Julio Cortazar’s short story Blow Up. It takes place on the tip of an island in the Seine in Paris. It was nice to read the story again in the actual spot.