5 livros parecidos com Uma semana nos rios Concord e Merrimack
Vida no 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.
Temas em comum: Journeys, Description and travel, Travel, Classic Literature
A Trilha da Califórnia e do Oregon
Presents accounts of a young man's travels on the Oregon Trail and his sojourn with the Oglala Indians.
Temas em comum: Journeys, Description and travel, Travel, History
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…
Temas em comum: Gift books, Description and travel, Classic Literature
Os Bosques do 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…
Temas em comum: Journeys, Description and travel, Travel, History
O Cigano Rico
The journey of a learned young man living with Romanies.
Temas em comum: Journeys, Travel, Classic Literature