Pre-1940s travel literature

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Hello, /lit/. I wish no harm upon you or yours.

I've recently read through a lot of André Gide's work, and I would wholeheartedly recommend you fine gents to do the same. I was, in particular, more than pleasantly surprised by his travel literature. 'Amyntas' was acceptably interesting. It did suffer from some orientalist-romanticist bias, but that made it all the more endearing. However, I was blown away by his 'Return from Chad'. There is not a page not filled with wonder, excitement and the bad, bad treatment of less-than-white people. The political overtones did detract from it, but reading about 1920s Chad was very interesting. I shall once more encourage you to scour your local book depositories and libraries, or to update your torrent trackers if you can't find a paper version. It happens, and you should not feel bad about it.

And this is where your combined knowledge would come in. I have gained an appetite for this kind of literature, often overlooked. I'm interested in particular in slightly older books, fin-de-siècle maybe, possibly about places which have dramatically changed since.

I shall thank you for any contributions.