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Can you guys recommend anything that describes natural scenery very well?

A short story wold be preferable but also writers and novels well known for their descriptive qualities of nature.

>> No.5760310
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5760310

You make me want to rewatch Planet Earth on DVD

>> No.5760311

>>5760284
The Cossacks by Tolstoy.

>> No.5760320

>>5760311
What can you tell me about this book? I tried to find it in my city but no library has it.

>> No.5760344

>>5760284

Short Stories:
Italo Calvino's Adam, One Afternoon is nice with regards to nature.

also:
The Peregrine
Seven Pillars of Wisdom

>> No.5760406

>>5760310
>>5760344

anybody got epubs of The Peregrine or The Snow Leopard?

>> No.5761035

>>5760284
Blood Meridian

>> No.5761073

>>5760284
There's a fairly large segment in Lolita dedicated to describing the American countryside.

>> No.5761102

Hemmingway.

>> No.5761535

>>5760284
How about The Lord of the Rings?

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5761541

Nice scenery in pic related.

Seconding The Snow Leopard.

>> No.5761561

>>5760284
The Tempest.

>> No.5761567

>>5760284
The Tempest is great. Gonzalo, Prospero, Ariel, they all describe nature beautifully. Even Caliban.

>> No.5761576

>>5761561
>>5761567
Whoops. Thought it didn't post at first. Western novels too. Check out Jack Schaefer.

>> No.5761607

>>5760344
>The Peregrine
this

i like how in his introduction he comments on how boring describing scenery is and then commences to describe nature and scenery as beautifully as fucking possible

>> No.5761624

>>5760320
Without giving away too much, it's a relatively short work (180 pages?) about an aristocrat who decides he's tired of city bullshit, and thinks he'll be some cool guy in the army. He ends up in a community of Cossacks and ventures around nature, where the OP's request comes in, as he tries to fit in with the Cossacks. It's got pretty interesting characters, and I had fun trying to envision the environment.

>> No.5761627

WORDSWORTH

THIS IS HIS JAM

>> No.5761641 [DELETED] 

jomotherfuckingseph conrad reporting in

>> No.5761650

>>5761641
I can't believe I forgot about him. Check out his short stories for this too. What's the one called where he brings the guy on his ship. "The Stranger"? "The Foreigner"?

>> No.5761662 [DELETED] 

>>5761650
i think you might be thinking of lord jim?

>> No.5761676

>>5761662
I found my copy of his short stories. It's called "The Secret Sharer."

>> No.5761677

>>5760284

Toilers of the Sea

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>>5761677

>> No.5761871

>>5761035
This, OP

>> No.5762089

>>5760284
Henry David Thoreau
Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac

>> No.5762118

>>5760284
Tolstoy is well known for his Georgic passages. I haven't read everything he wrote, but Hadji Murad, Anna Karenina, W&P, all contain lengthy descriptions of nature and nature-related activities. For shorter works, How Much Land Does a Man Need obviously does, although The Death of Ivan Ilyich does not. You should probably just read Tolstoy, since it will both sate your need to read about nature and make you less of a pleb.

>> No.5762149

And qiet flows the Don

>> No.5762200

>>5760284
It's not quite well-known here, but Shimazaki Toson's "Broken Commandment" is a great novel with descriptive images of scenery

>> No.5762226

>>5761561
>>5761567
Love's Labour's Lost and Midsummer Night's Dream too.

>> No.5762231

>>5762226
Midsummer Night's Dream should be read in tandem with The Tempest, I'd say.

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5762234

If you've ever spent time in the English countryside around October, this book will make you feel comfy as fuck.

>> No.5762244

Walden
Walden
Walden
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Walden