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Travel accounts and memoirs etc.
Share your favourites. Im looking to read more of these. non-fiction only.

>> No.21654728

>>21653621
Goethe Italian Journey
Darwin Voyage of the Beagle
Humboldt - there's an Everyman edition called Selected Writings which is quite good.
Shackleton's South, although Roald Amundsen, who actually won, also has a published travel journal
Xenophon's Anabasis
Bernal Diaz's account of the conquest of Mexico

there are more

>> No.21654769

>>21653621
José Saramago - Journey to Portugal
Writer rediscovering his own country

>> No.21654784

>>21653621
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West is a mammoth piece of early 20th century travel literature. It's also superb in giving an accurate history of the Balkans.

>> No.21654825

>>21654784
For fans of Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry said this was the greatest travel book he'd ever read.

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Ibn Battuta's The Rihla or A Masterpiece to Those Who Contemplate the Wonders of Cities and the Marvels of Travelling

>> No.21655090

>>21653621
papillon - henri charriere
le guillotene seche - rene belbenoit

>> No.21655291

Casanova's memoir is top tier. My translation (Machen) reads well and can get quite exciting, but the minutiae is sometimes sluggish and Casanova understandably trips over himself at times. I'm only half way through after reading at night for a year. And coomers be warned; the sexual encounters are very implicit.

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>> No.21655609

>>21654784
>women authors

>>21655072
which translation?

>> No.21655679

>>21655291
Is it really? He just sounds like a boring sex pest

>> No.21655688

>>21655302
This.

>> No.21655848

>>21653621
Some good stuff by Jan Morris. Beware though, she/he's an old-school tranner.

>> No.21655961

>>21653621
Herman Melville wrote a lot of travel diaries. I haven't read any of them, but they might amuse some of you.

>> No.21656798

>>21653621
>non-fiction only.
I recently read Bernal Diaz's account of the conquest of Mexico and it was great.

>> No.21657536

>>21655609
grow up

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>>21655609
>women authors
Yes. Women are authors too, turd.

>> No.21658497

>>21658272
Great book. The whole series really. It's also a great accompaniment for those reading/studying spy fiction

>> No.21659613

Several I've enjoyed recently:

Arabian Sands (Wilfred Thesiger)
Kabloona (Gontran De Poncins)
Three Men in a Boat (Jerome K. Jerome)
Captain Cook's Voyages (James Cook, John Barrow)
South from Granada: A Sojourn in Southern Spain (Chris Fortunato, Gerald Brenan)
Seven Years in Tibet (Heinrich Harrer)
Kon-Tiki (Thor Heyerdahl)

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>> No.21659712

>>21659613
All great. Good post.

>> No.21660031

>>21653621
The King of Saxony's Journey Through England and Scotland in the Year 1844 - Carl Gustav Carus