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Ibn Fadlan and The Land of Darkness:
It's a collection of texts written by Arab travellers who went north. Most of the texts are about the steppe nomads (Bulghars, Khazars, Pecenegs, the Rūs, etc.) in the Ukraine/Black Sea area. A small amount of texts are about Western Europe (the land of the Franks). Ibn Fadlan is also known for writing down the only account of a Viking burial. What is remarkable about his writing is that it's not politically coloured, it's amazingly open minded for it's time.

>>8200852
thank you anon!!!

>>8200842
The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard. Author joins the disastrous Robert Falcon Scott expedition as the "assistant zoologist."
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14363

Xenophon's anabasis is great fun and there's loads fo great stuff from WW2, especially from British sources as we tended to focus more on the fun and less on the human misery.
Fitzroy Maclean's Eastern Approaches is very good, as is A Person From England though it's not autobiographical.
I also recommend 'A Late Education'

>>8200852
>not including The Year of Death of Ricardo Reis, History of the Siege of Lisbon or Ulysses under Europe

anon pls

>>8200874
Add to it and make a v2.