Travelogue Recommendations

>>9951651

All other forms of artistic expression are inferior to music in their ability to convey emotion and story and real A E S T H E T I C meaning. Honest writers, filmmakers, potters and internet people are happy to put their arts at the service of music in the character of a supporting capacity.

Witness (again?) the editing which gave rise to this perfect emotion which informed you, OP. Did you see it before? If not, then how did you come to pick your OP image? If so, then what does the image mean to you?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmWmvR_PwXA

Fear & Loathing jumps to mind.

>>9951651
It used be pretty common because the grand tour was common. It's a way to make money from the experience too.

Sterne has a travelogue from when war was breaking out across Europe and he was travelling with a diplomatic party. It's called something like Sentimental Journey through France and Italy, but he doesn't get as far as the title lets on IIRC

There's an early near stream of consciousness one by Beckford called Dreams, Waking Thoughts and Incidents which is closer to the standard Grand Tour.

Robert Louis Stevenson did a lot of these. Travels with a Donkey goes back over the same territory, but if you want a great book on frontier California when they were setting up resort towns and building competing railways to be the first way back east, get Silverado Squatters. It was pretty scandalous at the time because it's about Stevenson's honeymoon with his previously married wife, and he gets fed up with paying for a hotel so they go live in an abandoned native's hut, and Stevenson probably isn't the weirdest person in the town even then.

The mainstream has Bryson, but there's definitely a long history of these and they were often the works the public most read from literary authors/artists who travelled.

VS Naipaul's Among the Believers gives highly readable insight to places like Iran, Pakistan, Indonesia and Malaysia