Some cities lend themselves to this kind of off-the-chart adventure; here are six of our favourites – and six ways to make it home again.
By contrast, the Warner Bros remake will play out in the present day and chart the adventures of Dorothy's feistier granddaughter.
Charting the adventures of a child from the Mumbai ghetto, Slumdog Millionaire opened the London film festival last October.
In several of them, Ms. Belkin charts the adventures of a young couple, Brandon and Jill Lowitz, who decide to quit their high-powered jobs in New York and move to Bali.
Hailed by critics as one of Lynch's finest films, Mulholland Drive charts the adventures of a young Hollywood starlet and an amnesiac femme fatale.
Charting the adventures of a flamboyantly gay Austrian fashionista, Brüno, from the Borat team of Sacha Baron Cohen and director Larry Charles, followed the earlier film's mock-documentary technique, but its mean spirit dampened some audience laughter.
It's essentially a travelogue charting the adventures of a husband and wife as they pilot a barge round the British coast, "Oh, we had no idea about the power of the sea, the perpetual sense of jeopardy," Tim says.
The example of Ransome, whose 1930 Swallows and Amazons charts the adventures of four siblings who sail off alone in a boat to camp on an island one summer holiday, points up just how removed these adventures are from the experience of contemporary children.
Through your work, starting with the Barrytown trilogy, which charts the adventures of Dublin's Rabbite family in the nineteen-eighties and early nineties, to this week's story, a reader could track the huge changes that have taken place in Irish society over the past two or three decades.
This week marks the 20th anniversary of Star Trek: The Next Generation, which charted the adventures of the U.S.S.
It is the first novel in the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series, which charts the adventures of modern-day twelve-year-old Percy Jackson as he discovers he is a demigod, the son of Sally Jackson and the Greek god Poseidon.
