Our Old Home vs Tristes Tropiques: Which Should You Read?

Both live on shelves: Description and travel, Travel, Social life and customs, History

Cover of Our Old Home

Our Old Home Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1863 398 pages · ≈ 7 h 22 m · Challenging Find on Amazon

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Cover of Tristes Tropiques

Tristes Tropiques Claude Lévi-Strauss · 1955 ★★★★☆ 4.1 404 pages · ≈ 7 h 29 m · Moderate Find on Amazon

The verdict

Tristes Tropiques is the easier read (Moderate), Our Old Home more demanding (Challenging).

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