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Literary works about tourism

1. "Ride the Iron Rooster: Across China by Train"

This is Paul Theroux's only work about travel in China. He traveled through most of China by train. . Traveling with him was a Chinese scholar named Fang. Although Saul complained in the book that some Fang scholars were suspected of spying on him, this scholar was more of a convenience for his travels. He even went to Tibet alone. This book won the 1988 Thomas Cook Travel Literature Award.

2. "Night Flight West"

This book by the author Beryl Markham mainly describes her childhood in Africa, how she learned to hunt, and how she interacted with the locals. Deep Aboriginal camaraderie, flying a propeller plane alone, and more. It also includes her solo flight across the Atlantic in 1936, which sounds like a very cool thing.

Of course, in this process, she also encountered various difficulties, both from nature and politics. She wrote in the book: "There is nothing to think about except your own courage; there is nothing to think about except the beliefs, faces and hopes that are rooted in your mind - this experience is like discovering something at night. It’s so surprising when a stranger walks side by side with you.”

3. “The World: Half a Century of Walking and Writing”

Jane Mo. Reese is also a very famous travel writer. Before writing full-time, she was a reporter and reported on the team that climbed Mount Everest.

This book is hailed as Morris's masterpiece, a collection of her many years of travel notes and reports. From the 1950s to the 1990s, her experiences and insights from interviews and travels around the world are collected in this book. There are more than a dozen short articles in each decade, totaling nearly 90 articles.

From Britain, France and Germany to the United States, Canada and Australia, to the Middle East and even Africa, the changes and social changes in various countries in the 20th century after World War II are all presented in the author's writing. Although this book uses travel as a clue, it is It truly records the changes in the world structure.

4. "On the Patagonian Plateau"

Bruce Chatwin is not only an excellent travel writer, but also a photographer with unique vision and first-class taste. division. In addition to these two identities, he is also an art connoisseur and the youngest art department director in the history of Sotheby's Auction House.

His travel works make readers feel that the journey scenery is largely the inner projection of the traveler, and the author's experience, taste and attitude will be reflected in the written travel.

5. "A Journey to Ireland"

This book is a classic work by Heinrich B?ll, the 1972 Nobel Prize winner for literature. He wrote it in 1957 travel notes. Ireland is a fascinating country, and countless writers have written about this charming place.

This book records every detail of Burr's three trips to Ireland, and is hailed as "the most sympathetic prose masterpiece of the twentieth century"