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12412901 No.12412901 [Reply] [Original]

Obviously, travel is a pleb genre, but have any travelers ever risen above their station and written anything worth reading?

>> No.12413165

You're a faggot for attaching that picture OP
Sage

>> No.12413180

>>12413165
Why? Isn't it a travel book?

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>>12412901
try these

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>>12413180
No but Conrad was a great traveler, and couldn't have written a single page if he hadn't been, so the image is appropriate.

Many if not most great authors have traveled extensively D.H. Lawrence, R.L. Stevenson, Byron, et al), but I assume OP means has anyone established himself first as a traveler, and then written anything worth reading. Many authors spring to mind:
T.E. Lawrence (Seven Pillars of Wisdom)
Wilfred Thesiger (Arabian Sands)
Gavin Maxwell (Ring of Bright Water)
Paul Bowles (The Sheltering Sky, Let It Come Down, etc.)
Farley Mowat (The Farfarers, People of the Deer, etc.)

Those are all worth reading but whether they have literary merit is a matter of opinion.

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>>12412901
>travel is a pleb genre
I'll take things plebs say

>> No.12413325

In Patagonia, Bruce Chatwin.
Road to Wigan Pier, Orwell

>> No.12413462

>>12413314
Yeah, but you're not reading Bill Bryson are you?

>> No.12413621

>>12413209
>No Kazantzakis
ISHYGDDT

>> No.12413687

>>12413621
just update it, laddie

>> No.12413707

>>12413165

Of all the things to sage you chose this thread?

Why do I keep coming here again?

>> No.12413732

>>12412901
Journey by Celine is in the top 100

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>>12413462
90% of everything is crud

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Field notes are patriciancore
The log book from the sea of Cortez
Voyages of the Beagle
Naturalists in Paradise: Wallace, Bates and Spruce in the Amazon
The Malay Archipelago
My first summer in the Serria
T E Lawrence
In Siberia

>> No.12413894

the novel literally began as a fictional travelogue

>> No.12413917

Tristes Tropiques

>> No.12413933

>>12413894
Is there a bunch of newfags on discord collectively deciding to namefag or something?
It's fucking stupid, try being an interesting and people will remember you from your posting habits alone(or at least it used to be like this when this board was slower and had more good posters), otherwise just be happy with being anonymous.