Progress with “Tourist In Your Own Town” is going well, and
proofing is now at an advanced stage. The cover, featuring a stereotyped
tourist in a well-known London location, looks great. The first attempt at
printing has been undertaken. This has demonstrated that the preferred
typeface, Garamond, doesn’t come out too well, with the crossbars on the e’s
and the H’s, in particular, tending to vanish. Current thinking is to go for a
bolder and denser font for the main text, probably Baskerville Old, and at a
larger point size. This will mean a fatter book, currently estimated at around
488 pages. Everything always takes longer than expected!
Allowing for other
commitments, publication of “Tourist” is at present projected for early
October. For anyone interested in the subjective aspects of geography, the
psychology of places, how we experience travel, and what has become known as
psychogeography, “Tourist In Your Own Town” will be an essential book to
purchase.
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