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Recommend firsthand historical accounts of expeditions to new lands/civilizations. Just finished Parkman’s Oregon Trail and loved it(nigga went blind for the rest of his very long life due to contracted dysentery on the trip, had to dictate for 50 years in order to write)

>> No.12587684

Usama ibn munqidh’s memoirs about living in the levant during the height of the Crusader States
>One day, I went into the little mosque, recited the opening formula ‘God is great!’ and stood up in prayer. At this, one of the Franks rushed at me and grabbed me and turned my face towards the east, saying, ‘Pray like this!’. . . So the Templars came in again, grabbed him and threw him out.” (“Newly Arrived Franks Are the Roughest”)

>> No.12589168

there is Marco polo's book I plan to read, and another, by a guy on the boat with magellen as they discovered the passage to the pacific at the bottom of south america.

>> No.12589881

Xenophontis anabasis

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>> No.12590754

>>12589168
Marco polo’s is boring/antiquated as phuck and half of it seems BS.
Des Sauvages, or, Voyage of Samuel Champlain

>> No.12590776

>>12590754
>and half of it seems BS
people still read herodotus

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>>12586351
The Narrative of Cabeza de Vaca