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wasoxygen  ·  1451 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What books did you get stuck with?

How about travel writing? Respectable escapism.

This story appeared in Salon's Wanderlust collection.

Gutenberg has a nice collection, if you don't mind electronic books:

https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Travel_(Bookshelf)





elizabeth  ·  1451 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I’ll check it out! It’s funny tho - I love traveling but am only mildly interested by other people’s travels unless they have something unique about it. I’ve made ove 200 travel videos (mostly for my personal memory bank) and barely ever watch anyone else’s. But maybe in writing it’s different, never read any travel books before.

Started a Mordecai Richler book yesterday, and it’s going way better! It’s hard to believe it was written more than 50 years ago, it feels very contemporary.