Can anyone recommend some good first-account history books? Anything like first person accounts of war, travels, encountering uncontacted tribes, natural science expeditions? Currently reading David Attenborough's book and looking for more, much older accounts.

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Anonymous Fri Mar 3 15:14:25 2017 No.9184505 [Reply] [Original]

Can anyone recommend some good first-account history books?

Anything like first person accounts of war, travels, encountering uncontacted tribes, natural science expeditions?

Currently reading David Attenborough's book and looking for more, much older accounts.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 3 15:17:46 2017 No.9184515 Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 3 15:34:10 2017 No.9184575 >>>/his/>>>

« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!Srz2lnO/STC Fri Mar 3 18:15:14 2017 No.9185119
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>>9184505
George Orwell
Margaret Mead
Peter Matthiessen (The Snow Leopard is what I read. Apparently he wrote some fictions though)
And Voline's The Unknown Revolution.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 3 18:20:10 2017 No.9185135 File: 994 KB, 1831x3200, Travel.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Xenophon - Anabasis

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 3 18:25:22 2017 No.9185161 >>9184505 Albert Speer, Inside the Third Reich

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 3 18:27:02 2017 No.9185172 >>9184505 Thomas Hutchinson - strictures on the declaration Peter Oliver - Origin and Progress of the American Revolution

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