18 books like Notes from a Big Country

What to read after Notes from a Big Country — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

The travelling bachelor James Fenimore Cooper · 1828 · 486p · ≈ 16h · Challenging Notions of the Americans in considered Cooper's first work of non-fiction despite a thin overlay of character and plot. Written in the form of a travel narrative, it addresses the widespread ignorance he encountered in Europe about the people and institutions of the United States. It is an exuberant chant of praise for American representative democracy, encapsulating the utopian vision that… Shares: Moeurs et coutumes, Mœurs et coutumes, Manners and customs, Description and travel

Society in America Harriet Martineau · 1837 · 376p · ≈ 12h · Challenging After having published several works on economics, Harriet Martineau travelled through the USA and wrote down her experiences in the work 'Society in America' in 1837. This book is a social study, that is known as one of the first sociological studies at all. She focuses on slavery and on women's role in American society and causes controversial discussion in her time. Shares: Moeurs et coutumes, Civilisation, Mœurs et coutumes, Description and travel

The road to Little Dribbling Bill Bryson · 2015 · ★ 3.9 · 486p · ≈ 16h · Moderate Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to discover and celebrate that green and pleasant land. The result was Notes from a Small Island, one of the bestselling travel books ever written. Now he has traveled about Britain again, by bus and train and rental car and on foot, to see what has changed -- and what hasn't. Following a route he dubs the Bryson Line, from Bognor Regis… Shares: Civilization, Manners and customs, Description and travel, Humor

Travels in Arabia Deserta Charles Montagu Doughty · 1888 · ★ 3.6 · 323p · ≈ 10h · Challenging In this classic travelogue, English poet and adventurer Charles M. Doughty takes readers on an unforgettable journey through the heart of Arabia in the late 19th century. With vivid prose and keen observations, Doughty brings to life the harsh beauty of the desert landscape, the customs and traditions of the nomadic Bedouin tribes, and the rich history and culture of the region. A true… Shares: Moeurs et coutumes, Mœurs et coutumes, Manners and customs, Description and travel

Domestic manners of the Americans Frances Milton Trollope · 1832 · 366p · ≈ 12h · Challenging When Fanny Trollope set sail for America in 1827 with hopes of joining a Utopian community of emancipated slaves, she took with her three of her children and a young French artist, leaving behind her son Anthony, growing debts and a husband going slowly mad from mercury poisoning. But what followed was a tragicomedy of illness, scandal and failed business ventures. Nevertheless, on her return to… Shares: Mœurs et coutumes, Description and travel, United States, Travel

Tropic of Capricorn Henry Miller · 1939 · ★ 3.8 · 349p · ≈ 11h · Challenging Author explores the sources of his early life in New York and undertakes to define a view of his country. Shares: Vardagsliv och traditioner, Civilization, Manners and customs, Humor

The Middle Kingdom S. Wells Williams · 1848 · 810p · ≈ 27h · Demanding First published in 2009. This work by S. Wells Williams is a complete look at the Chinese Empire during the mid-nineteenth century. Subjects include the divisions of the Empire, geographical descriptions, religion and art, literature, the second war between Great Britain and China and social life among the Chinese. This is Volume two of two. Shares: Mœurs et coutumes, Civilization, Manners and customs, Description and travel

Stories of American life and adventure Edward Eggleston · 1895 · ★ 3.7 · 177p · ≈ 5h · Challenging The principal aim of this book is to make the reader acquainted with American life and manners in other times. The history of life has come to be esteemed of capital importance, but it finds, as yet, small place in school instruction. The stories and sket. Shares: Anecdotes, United States, Humor, Social life and customs

Letters and notes on the manners, customs, and condition of the North American Indians George Catlin · 1841 · ★ 4.1 · 254p · ≈ 8h · Challenging George Catlin self educated artist, paintings in oil, water colour, realizing the red man's existence was rapidly becoming adulterated with many exaggerated stories from settlers,so called mountain men, & explorers in general, decided to take off alone, ill prepared for the adventure ahead, fearlessly into Indian country. His written input is kept to a minimum thus allowing his images to make his… Shares: Moeurs et coutumes, Mœurs et coutumes, Description and travel, Travel

The book of snobs William Makepeace Thackeray · 1848 · ★ 3.7 · 248p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Thackeray contributed regularly to Fraser's Magazine, Morning Chronicle, New Monthly Magazine and The Times. His writings attracted first attention in Punch, where he satirized English snobbery. These sketches reappeared in 1848 as The Book of Snobs, stating in it that "he who meanly admires mean things is a Snob." Shares: Anecdotes, Description and travel, Humor

Bitter lemons Lawrence Durrell · 1957 · 271p · ≈ 9h · Moderate With the publication of Justine Lawrence Durrell became, almost overnight, one of the most talked about, widely acclaimed novelists of the decade. Now, in Bitter Lemons, his focus has shifted from the world of his imagination to life itself. Writing in the exquisite poetic prose that critics have hailed as unequalled in contemporary literature, he tells the perceptive, often humorous story of his… Shares: Manners and customs, Description and travel, Travel, Social life and customs

Tent-life in Siberia and adventures among the Koraks and other tribes in Kamchatka and northern Asia George Kennan · 1870 · 425p · ≈ 14h · Challenging An account of a period living in Siberia in pursuit of a plan to carry a telegraph line across land to Europe through Siberia in consequence of the failure of efforts to carry a telegraph line to Europe under the Atlantic. Shares: Description and travel, Travel, Social life and customs

Retrospect of Western Travel-3VOLS Harriet Martineau · 1838 · 165p · ≈ 5h · Challenging "This new abridgement of the original 1838 edition offers a view of Jacksonian America. Here are Martineau's condemnation of slavery and her championship of abolition and women's rights; her incisive portraits of Jackson, Clay, Calhoun, Webster, Garrison, Emerson, and the Beechers; her observations of American schools, asylums, colleges, and prisons; and her eyewitness accounts of a presidential… Shares: Mœurs et coutumes, Manners and customs, Description and travel, United States

What I saw in America Gilbert Keith Chesterton · 1922 · 111p · ≈ 3h · Challenging Like many writers and thinkers of his era, British author G. K. Chesterton toured the United States to get a clearer sense of the country's culture and zeitgeist. The collection What I Saw in America offers Chesterton's impressions of the U. S. in the early twentieth century. Part travelogue, part cultural critique, and part historical analysis, this unique volume is a must-read for Chesterton… Shares: Civilization, Description and travel, United States, Travel

No Thoroughfare Charles Dickens · 1800 · ★ 3.6 · 106p · ≈ 3h · Challenging No Thoroughfare is a stage play and novel by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins, both released in December 1867. Shares: Mœurs et coutumes, Manners and customs, Social life and customs

The Homeric gods Walter Friedrich Gustav Hermann Otto · 1929 · 310p · ≈ 10h · Challenging In many respects, this book is considered to be the best guide ever written on Homeric religion. The analysis by W. F. Otto, while being very careful in terms of interpretation, denotes an open consonance of the author with the spirit - sometimes brutal and, for our mentality, immoral - of Greek polytheism. A thrilling and amazing journey to Olympus. This is a new edition of the Pantheon Books… Shares: Civilisation, Civilization

China Road Rob Gifford · 2007 · ★ 4.3 · 342p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Route 312 is the Chinese Route 66. It flows three thousand miles from east to west, passing through the factory towns of the coastal areas, through the rural heart of China, then up into the Gobi Desert, where it merges with the Old Silk Road. The highway witnesses every part of the social and economic revolution that is turning China upside down.In this utterly surprising and deeply personal… Shares: Manners and customs, Description and travel, Travel, Social life and customs

Metropolitan Life Fran Lebowitz · 1978 · ★ 3.3 · 177p · ≈ 5h · Moderate In the vein of Lebowitz's acclaimed Netflix limited series, Pretend It's a City—The Fran Lebowitz Reader brings together two of the famed author's bestsellers, Metropolitan Life and Social Studies.In "elegant, finely honed prose" (The Washington Post Book World), Lebowitz limns the vicissitudes of contemporary urban life—its fads, trends, crazes, morals, and fashions. By turns ironic, facetious,… Shares: Anecdotes, Manners and customs, Humor, Social life and customs

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