7 Bücher ähnlich wie Eine Woche auf dem Concord und Merrimack
Leben am Mississippi
At once a romantic history of a mighty river, an autobiographical account of Twains early steamboat days, and a storehouse of humorous anecdotes and sketches, here is the raw material from which Mark Twain wrote his finest novel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Gemeinsame Themen: Journeys, Description and travel, Travel, Classic Literature
Kalifornien und der Oregon-Trail
Presents accounts of a young man's travels on the Oregon Trail and his sojourn with the Oglala Indians.
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Walisien
Wild Wales: Its People, Language and Scenery is a travel book by the English Victorian gentleman writer George Borrow (1803–1881), first published in 1862.
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Typee
At one time the most popular of Melville's works, Typee was known as a travelogue that idealized and romanticized a mysterious South Sea island for readers in the ruthless, industrial, "civilized" world of the nineteenth century.
But Melville's story of Tommo, the Yankee sailor who enters the flawed Pacific paradise of Nuku Hiva, is also a fast-moving adventure tale, an autobiographical account…
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Die Unschuldigen im Ausland
Twain's letters about his steamship voyage of 1867.
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Die Wälder von Maine
The Maine Woods is a characteristically Thoreauvian book: a personal account of exploration, of exterior and interior discovery in a natural setting, conveyed in taut, workmanlike prose. Thoreau's evocative renderings of the life of the primitive forest--its mountains, waterways, fauna, flora, and inhabitants--are valuable in themselves. But his impassioned protest against despoilment in the name…
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Der Zigeunerjunge
The journey of a learned young man living with Romanies.
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