Poste whatever cool shit you got that pertains to this theme. It's a vast, vast world out there, bros. Bonus points for autobiographical works.

The Seven Pillars of Wisdom

has anybody written comprehensively about rimbaud's arms merchant days?

In Patagonia, Bruce Chatwin.

A few of my favorites:

Seven Years in Tibet (Heinrich Harrer)
Kon-Tiki (Thor Heyerdahl)
Two Years Before the Mast (Richard Henry Dana Jr.)
A Time of Gifts (Patrick Leigh Fermor)
Arabian Sands (Wilfred Thesiger)
Kabloona (Gontran De Poncins)
Three Men in a Boat (Jerome K. Jerome)

ossendowski's beasts, men, and gods is top top tier
cendrars' bourlinguer (planus) as well

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I read Arabian Sands and Roumeli by Patrick Leigh Fermor earlier this year. I highly recommend both. I also enjoyed The Way of the World by Bouvier last year. I didn’t like Theroux’s The Great Railway Bazaar. I didn’t like him. Very unpleasant personality. He was pretty much everything I hate about tourists personified.

>>24567404
>Least Heat Moon

Wanderings in South America by Waterton

>>24566351 (OP)
the travels of sir john mandeville

>>24566351 (OP)
Wind, Sand, and Stars
The Colossus of Maroussi
Goethe’s Italian Travels
Flaubert in Egypt
The American Scene
A Moveable Feast

>>24566351 (OP)
Ibn Battuta liked Greeks in Constantinople (called them polite and intelligent) while disliking Greeks in Anatolia (called them drunkards). I wonder why?

>>24567759
>Wind, Sand, and Stars
Very Based. Saint-Exupéry's valiant humanist spirit is very touching.

Not sure if ethnographic works count, but Malinowski's Argonauts of the Western Pacific is interesting.

Endurance by astronaut Scott Kelly. He does a great job of making himself relatable despite being so accomplished. I enjoyed him relating the dream he had while aboard the ISS.

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>ISS
So it's a fictional memoir