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Hey /lit

Hit me up with you best books about travelling and if possible why.

Im not a shill nor a bot just a white dude looking for a good read about people visiting other countries.

Im from /trv and /fit (Not trans btw)

>> No.21835289

>>21835281
Man-eaters of Kumaon- Jim Corbett

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>>21835281

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Samuel Johnson - A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland

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>> No.21835551

>>21835281
I would recommend Bruce Chatwin

>> No.21836300

American Gods

>> No.21836313

>>21835281
Is wanderlust the most annoying word in the English language?

>> No.21836316

>>21835281
The Idiot's first chapters

>> No.21836330

the satyricon

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Blank on the Map by Eric Shipton. Pic very related.

>> No.21836343

>>21836330
And also the Odyssey (which it is a parody of)

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>>21835281
Rose, hear me. WE are going to Europe if I have to drag your fat brown ass there myself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAPQnYzy600

>> No.21836359

>>21836335
And the tranny guy and Dennis and Alison and Dr Cron can all come with us.

WE ARE ALL GOING I SAID SOOO

We're brining that butch and definitely not gender swapping, XX husband of Brookes with us.

>> No.21837179

Bruce chatwin it's still the king of travel literature, I might have read everything he ever wrote in the month I discovered him.

Patrick Leigh Fermor is another favorite. But the man's whole life is an epic. One of those people who was both a scholar and a mercenary and a war hero and did it all for real.

Looking at my shelves there's also the complete collection of Evelyn waugh travel books, of which I've read maybe half. Fun stuff regardless.

There's also a lot of very old travel literature, I really like Henry James's Italian Hours, but that's of niche specialty interest.

>> No.21837191

>>21837179
Oh!
graham greene also had some fun travel books

>> No.21837370

>>21835281
Here's some vagabondcore:
Jack London
>The Road
>John Barleycorn
>The People of the Abyss
Kerouac
>The Dharma Bums
>On the Road
>Big Sur
>Desolation Angels
>Lonesome Traveler
Jack Black
>You Can't Win
George Orwell
>Down and Out in Paris and London
Morley Callaghan
>That Summer in Paris
John Steinbeck
>Travels with Charley

and not vagabondcore, but just an all around interesting essay collection for reading anywhere:
Love, Poverty, and War by Christopher Hitchens

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>> No.21837904

>>21835281
The Oddessey

>> No.21837910

>>21835281
Kerouac’s On The Road is the ultimate and original how go romanticise the hobo life as a college kid book.

>> No.21837927

Gravity's Rainbow

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>travelling

>> No.21838150

>>21835281
I think Paul Theroux is probably the greatest travel writer who is still very accessible to a modern audience. He addresses the philosophy of travel more deeply in his work than many others do.

If all else fails, there's always Rick Steves.

>> No.21838169

>>21837930
He would like it if he weren‘t a fat sack of shit struggling to breathe.

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Picked up a copy of picrelated in a thrift store a few days ago. Worth reading?

>> No.21838457

>>21838235
Newby is usually pretty funny. I really enjoyed The Last Grain Race and Slowly Down the Ganges. Haven’t read that one though.

>> No.21839031

>>21838235
>asking 4chan if a book you already own is worth reading
what do you ask for permission to piss too?

>> No.21839139

>>21838235
It's a classic so yes.