/lit/ - Literature

I'm not sure, but I have made observations against tourism from first hand experience. Travelling to another city/country and seeing all the tourist sights feels like disneyland. All of the tourists are walking around the capital and visiting the same areas. The locals don't like them. I prefer more off the beaten path and more adventurous. Why would I visit 50 different countries if all I'm going to do there is visit the capital and go to the beach? It's like the equivalent of saying "I've visited 'X'" when all you really have done is sat there on a layover flight.

pic related I found on /lit/ a while back, it might give some insight.

>>9016130

>>7406911
No interest for ebooks? That's how I get Peirene Press; the shipping from the UK is abysmal, I agree. Doubles the cost of the book.

I feel the same about Wakefield--the packaging and branding is so sleek, I'm hoping to catch up to have the full set of them. The kind of publisher that makes me want to arrange my shelves by publisher.

For non-fic, you might like my travel lit chart. It's always been a favorite. Do you want to be in contact off-4chan? We've got pretty similar tastes and are at similar stages of life (late 20s, married, children).

>>6120895

>>4745655
If you want travel literature, there is a chart. Just not /trv/-based.

Just throwing this up here. I know OP has seen it, but everyone throwing out recs seems to not have.

>>4307160
again, there's a nice big wiki full of recs waiting there for you

At least come back and give your thoughts after you've read some of the books you're planning to.

>>3824860
Well based on your tastes you will probably end up on your Nintendo DS one chapter in. But assuming you do read it, you probably won't finish in time to read another book by the time the plane lands. But I will play along (not really paying attention to your tastes just recommending some shit...)

"Melmoth the Wanderer" by C.R. Maturin. Great Gothic era horror story about a guy who sells who soul for immortality and travels the earth for centuries trying to find someone to take his place and release him from his wandering.

"Looking Backward 2000-1887" by Edward Bellamy. A Utopian novel in which a Man living in Boston in 1887 falls into a deep hypnotic sleep and wakes up in the year 2000, America has been turned into a centralized democratic society in which "everything is controlled by a humane and efficient state."

"A Time of Gifts" by Fermor. An 18 year old walks from England to Constantinople. He covers a good deal of Europe in his travels and at 350 pages it isn't too laborious of a novel.

Check the pic I uploaded for more good "Travel Lit".

from the wiki

Are you sure you're going to

http://4chanlit.wikia.com/wiki/Recommended_Reading

OP? Because it is not at all empty. There are sections for literature by origin, by type, genre fiction and non-fiction.

Andrzej Stasiuk, W.G. Sebald, Kapuscinski. Are you meaning modern or contemporary?

there's a section on the wiki for travel literature

there's a whole chart of them on the wiki, though most of these are non-fiction