Making the Literary-Geographical World of Sherlock Holmes – The Game is Afoot

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Yn ail hanner yr ugeinfed ganrif, cydweithiodd dilynwyr Americanaidd o lyfrau Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle i greu ‘byd Sherlock Holmes’ a groesai’r ffin rhwng ffaith a ffuglen. Mae’r llyfr hwn yn datgelu’r amryfal ffyrdd y daeth y byd hwn i fod: trwy ysgrifennu, mapio, chwarae a cherdded.
In the second half of the twentieth century, American readers of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories worked together to create a ‘world of Sherlock Holmes’ that crossed the boundary between reality and fiction. This book uncovers the different ways these readers created this world: writing, mapping, playing and walking.