#travel-literature

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Books
fromThe New Yorker
2 days ago

Ariel Levy on Emily Hahn's "The Big Smoke"

Emily Hahn embraced an adventurous expatriate life in 1930s Shanghai, experimented with opium curiosity, and traveled widely across diverse global locales.
History
fromMedievalists.net
1 month ago

New Medieval Books: The Observations of Gilles le Bouvier - Medievalists.net

A mid-15th-century French diplomatic observer documented concise, systematic descriptions of geography, peoples, food, and military character across Europe, the Near East, and adjacent regions.
Books
fromOpen Culture
1 month ago

Mark Twain Makes a List of 60 American Comfort Foods He Missed While Traveling Abroad (1880)

Satirical travel accounts portray American travelers' tactlessness and belligerence while balancing exact caricatures with detailed descriptions, curiosity, and delight.
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