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What are some books that are cozy like pic related? Also, what are some must read explorer books?

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>> No.15566303

Gulliver's travels
The Odyssey
Robinson Crusoe

>> No.15566310

>>15566303
Why is all the good explorer lit written before the 19th century? Everything else feels LARPy desu

>> No.15566328

>>15566310
Maybe because there is nothing to explore now. The wonder of the great distances are gone.

>> No.15566335

>>15566291
Great song choice

>> No.15566345

Hans Staden's True History: An Account of Cannibal Captivity in Brazil by Hans Staden

I wouldn't call it comfy or cozy, but it is definitely thrilling and interesting.

>> No.15566371

Hakluyt's Voyages
Ibn Battuta
Strabo
Pausanias
Megasthenes
Anabasis
Hippalus/Eudoxus of Cyzicus
Agatharchides
Scylax of Caryanda
Arrian's Indica

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?

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Simple overlong fantasy with too many cozy details plodded over. You might like it though there’s nothing profound.

>> No.15567198

>>15566442
>>15566450
>>15566468
die

>> No.15567281

>>15566291
Luís de Camões - Os Lusíadas
Virgil - Aeneid

>> No.15567289

>>15567198
But what do you think of the works themselves?

>> No.15567569

>>15567289
i think you're a filthy nigger

>> No.15567634

>>15566310
You are oversocialized. Stop using the word larp for anything non-ironic. It just shows your own insecurity. Everything good is always a bit beyond normalcy and a bit odd until after the fact.

>> No.15567645

>>15566291
''Dove'' is really good
like really really good.

>> No.15567654

Arabia Felix

>> No.15567756

>>15567645
birds aren't books

>> No.15567759

>>15566310
Yeah FUCK YOU MOBY DICK

>> No.15567778

>>15566310
I think its because people had a greater sense of exploration because traveel was just so much more rare and involved, giving it a bodily realism. Unlike today where we are use to simulated exporation through internet and automobiles,
but, kinda this too>>15567634

>> No.15567798

>>15567654
Seconded. It's exactly what you want, trust me.

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>>15567634
I love you.

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>> No.15568707

>>15568224
shut up schizo

>> No.15569038

Wilbur Smith did a lot of adventure books, but I think Blue Horizon would be the one I recommend the most.

>> No.15569370

>>15569038
I'm not reading anything by anyone named after a nigger actor

>> No.15569580

>>15566291
My personal favs are; Lost Horizon, Seven Years In Tibet, Sir Richard Francis Burton's exploits are pretty cool but not written the best. The explorers club has some cool books on more relevant explorers, and another similar theme are hunting adventure novels. I know it doesn't sound the same, but Capstick, Hemingway, Roosevelt, and Bell's hunting novels are stellar. Kim by Kipling is up there, and some more seafaring novels are the Aubrey Martin novels or the ever infamous captain blood are good.

>> No.15569809

>>15568224
no you dont

>> No.15569827

miguel de estete's account of the conquest of peru was an insightful read. to be one of just over a hundred conquistadors toppling an empire 12 million strong for god king and country, then being awarded an estate, hot native girls, and all the wealth you could ever want is the pinnacle of human achievement

>> No.15569885

Anabasis

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Diaz, The Conquest of New Spain.

>> No.15570242

>>15566310
Google scifi

Endymion had some good exploratory fun times.

>> No.15570929

>>15566328
Well, there's space but we lack the knowledge/technology like our ancestors before the medieval ages lacked the knowledge/technology to sail across the world. We are getting there though, this century we will land on Mars even though it's a barren planet. It will take several centuries until we can reach Earth-like planets.

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>>15568252
>Hans Staden's True History

Another non-fic along this line.

>> No.15571414

>>15570929
It's kind of the same but different at the same time.
We will never be able to explore space, maybe not even our solar system. We will never reach that optimism of conquering earth again.

>> No.15571960

>>15566310
There's still lots of unexplored places you stupid nigger
>papau new guinea
>antartica
>ocean

>> No.15572788

>>15571960
false