7 似ている本: ローマニの旅人
野生のウェールズ
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.
共通テーマ:English Authors, Journeys, Travel, Biography & Memoir
楽園の謎
American tourists, sure appreciators of all that is ancient and picturesque in England, invariably come to a halt, holding their breath in a sudden catch of wonder, as they pass through the half-ruinous gateway which admits to the Close of Wrychester. Nowhere else in England is there a fairer prospect of old-world peace. There before their eyes, set in the centre of a great green sward, fringed…
共通テーマ:England, Classic Literature
カタロニアへの致敬
[Homage to Catalonia][1] is [George Orwell][2]'s account of his experiences fighting in the 'Spanish Civil War'. Alongside many British workers, trades unionists, and socialists keen to help the Spanish defend their Republic from General Franco's Fascist forces. Orwell joined the [POUM][3] Militia in the Catalan region of Spain, was injured in the fighting and invalided back to England. After…
共通テーマ:English Authors, Journeys, Travel, Biography & Memoir
ミシシッピの生活
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.
共通テーマ:Journeys, Travel, Classic Literature, Biography & Memoir
船乗り一人で世界一周
Joshua Slocum, one of the most famous of American sea captains, really was the first to single-handedly circumnavigate the world. The epitome of Yankee independence, he had risen from a seaman to the captain of his own ship. Marooned in Brazil, he built a "canoe" in which he returned to America (see The Voyage of the Liberdade). At loose ends at fifty-one, he was offered an old oyster boat which…
共通テーマ:Journeys, Travel, Biography & Memoir
アルカトラズ刑務所
The Max Brand Megapack assembles 20 classic Max Brand tales—novels and short stories—set primarily in the American West. For pure Old West adventure, it doesn't get better than this -- more than 3,300 pages of action-packed reading!
Included are:
HARRIGAN (1918)
THE GHOST (1919)
HOLE-IN-THE-WALL BARRETT (1919)
TRAILIN’! (1919)
THE UNTAMED (1920)
OUT OF THE DARK (1920)
RIDERS OF THE SILENCES…
共通テーマ:Classic Literature, Biography & Memoir
コンコード・メリマック河畔の一週間
Thoreau's first book excels at depicting nature around his trip in words.
共通テーマ:Journeys, Travel, Classic Literature