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Literary Travelers

saliotthomas

saliotthomas

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This is a genre i deeply love.Highly educated and literate people traveling and writing about their encounters and sights.It is like borrowing a efficent brain and traveling the world.
My favorite is Paul Theroux,with the Great Railway bazard and the excellent Blackstar safari.
I read the Shadow of the silk road by Colin Thubron and have In Siberia on my shelves.It is good but no as good as Theroux(less of authors more historical)
In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin is beautifull.I always wanted to read more and somehow forget.
I read one of Micheal Palin book Around the world in 80 days but it's not very good.I'd say the TV stuff must be better.
There is a few that i can't remenber (one guy building a boat with coconut trees.. sevenin or something!).
Here is a link-http://www.literarytraveler.com/

If you know of some good ones please tell me.
 
One off-beat literary traveler I have enjoyed is Martin Cruz Smith. He writes detective novels (mostly) with a Russian detective as the central character. That detective gets around: a north Pacific fishing trawler in Polar Star, contemporary Cuba in Havana Bay, wartime Tokyo in December Six. He brings us the places and their atmospheres, as well as the people who inhabit them.
 
I have two Theroux accounts, The Great Railway Bazaar and The Old Patagonian Express. Not read them yet. Also unread is Gerard Brennan's South From Grenada, which isn't so much a journey as an exploration of a single place.

A couple of others I've got on the shelves are three by John Steinbeck: The Log From The "Sea Of Cortez", A Russian Journal, and Travels With Charley. The latter, being a journey around America, is always popular, and a recent account by Timothy O'Grady, Divine Magnetic Lands, was published last year.
 
Thanks to Shadforth i found the name i lost.
Tim Severin,sailor and traveller,(might get Robert interested)Wrote some delightfull novels about moderne sailing with old ships,or built like in the old days.His style is good and humourous,full of references.

Linky---->Home | Tim Severin
 
I found a book yesterday by a guy called Meatball Fulton(aka Thomas Lopez) called Moon over Morocco.
Has any of you heard about him?
 
saliotthomas said:
Thanks to Shadforth i found the name i lost.
Tim Severin,sailor and traveller,(might get Robert interested)Wrote some delightfull novels about moderne sailing with old ships,or built like in the old days.His style is good and humourous,full of references.

Linky---->Home | Tim Severin
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I can't believe I missed this thread and this post! I must get myself to the optometrist straightaway! Mr. Abc and I both read and enjoyed Severin's Brendan Voyage. In fact, I even gave a copy as a going away present once. I didn't realize he wrote fiction as well. Thanks for the link and heads-up.

btw-I just did an interlibrary loan search and there are no copies of Severin's novels in Kansas, so I tried WorldCat.org and discovered there are just two holdings in the US for Corsair. Hopefully we can get a copy sent anyway.
 
I just got Corsair and plan to read it next.
I remenber a passage in one his book(non fiction)where they find,after week of hardship at sea, the Indian cook washing his feet in their main cooking pot....:D
 
saliotthomas said:
I just got Corsair and plan to read it next.
I remenber a passage in one his book(non fiction)where they find,after week of hardship at sea, the Indian cook washing his feet in their main cooking pot....:D
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Isn't Corsair the first in the series? Maybe I should request all three and have a pirate marathon...
 
You have to be carefull ABC.Try one first.I did that with Simon Scarrow books about the legion,baught 3 of them and could hardly finish the first...But Tim Severin should not be a desapointement.
 
I don't think I need to worry about Mr. Severin. I just am afraid of having the three books arrive out of sequence, over a period of several weeks. I didn't check on the third book, but the closest holding on book 2 was some 680 miles away, and Corsair was 1000 miles away...IF they're checked in.
Did you read The Brendan Voyage? I found the description of the old boat making techniques fascinating. That there are still folks who know how to do those things is amazing.
 
abecedarian said:
Did you read The Brendan Voyage? I found the description of the old boat making techniques fascinating. That there are still folks who know how to do those things is amazing.
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I don't think i did.The one i read the boat was made of coconut tree and vines of sort.Not nails or metalic parts.Very impressive.
I think he specialize in old technic of ship building and then travels on them.The most amazing is that he is still alive to tells about it after all these years!
 
saliotthomas said:
I don't think i did.The one i read the boat was made of coconut tree and vines of sort.Not nails or metalic parts.Very impressive.
I think he specialize in old technic of ship building and then travels on them.The most amazing is that he is still alive to tells about it after all these years!
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I noticed the publication dates on some of his books..the dude has been a busy fella.. for years! He'd be fun to talk to, I bet.
 
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