There are 15 titles for those who love to travel […]
It seems like one of those coincidences between imaginary stories, but it’s World Book Day.
The date was chosen by the UN to celebrate two icons of world literature: William Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes, whose death occurred on April 23, 1616.
And how in here? Travel by fare We like to travel (on the road and between the pages of a book), discover the advice for works that have travel as their protagonist.
World Book Day: discover the suggestions
*Nominations are an editor’s choice Travel by fare and have no commercial or editorial ties to the publishers
The first trip around the world
Antonio Pigafetta
(L&PM Books)
where you will travel: From Europe to Asia, in an alternative route to reach the coveted spices of the East, passing through Brazil, Patagonia and the Pacific Ocean.
what the trip will be like: This delightful travel report by the Italian Pigafetta, one of over 230 men embarked on the venture, provides details of the three-year journey aboard the five ships that carried out the first circumnavigation of the world, under the command of Ferdinand Magellan, in 1519 .
I travel to my room
Xavier de Maistre
(Editor 34)
where you will travel: In the room of a French soldier confined for 42 days, in a fortress in Turin, after a duel.
what the trip will be like: In 42 short chapters, Xavier de Maistre has enough imagination to embark on a journey “wherever he wants to take us”. Even Nietzsche and Machado de Assis would have agreed to the Frenchman’s travel proposal (the Rio writer even once confessed to having drunk from the confined man’s text to write “Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas”).
Around the world in 72 days
Nellie Bly
(Ima Editore)
where you will travel: New York, England, France, Italy, Egypt, Yemen, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong and Japan.
what the trip will be like: The pioneer of investigative journalism decided to debunk the classic Around the world in 1980, by Jules Verrne, and proposed to his publisher that he write the same screenplay in less time. To do this she took steamboats, followed the railways and got on rickshaws to demonstrate that the road is also a place for women.
In the jungles of Brazil
Theodore Roosevelt
(Editions of the Federal Senate – volume 141)
where you will travel: Brazilian Amazon.
what the trip will be like: Between December 1913 and April 1914, the 26th US leader will be one of the participants in a trip that will map the River of Doubt, between Rondônia and Amazonas. Led by none other than Cândido Rondon, the Rondon-Roosevelt scientific expedition lasted five months, of which 48 days passed without seeing a single human being in those intractable forests.
Endurance: Shackleton’s legendary expedition to Antarctica
Carolina Alessandro
(Cia das Letras)
where you will travel: South Georgia and Antarctica.
what the trip will be like: Terrible! These would only be written accounts, were it not for the recordings made by the photographer Frank Hurley, one of the 28 men who drifted to the extreme south of the planet, between 1914 and 1916, as the ice sheets prevented the continuation of the ” Imperial Transantarctic Expedition”, led by the Irishman Ernest Shackleton, who intended to cross Antarctica on foot, from one end to the other.
The Fawcett Expedition: Journey to the Lost City of Z
Brian Fawcett (org.)
(Record publisher)
where you will travel: Serra do Roncador (Mato Grosso), Bolivia, Peru, Hong Kong and Sri Lanka.
what the trip will be like: In unpublished texts organized by Brian Fawcett, youngest son of the British explorer Percy Fawcett, he noted that in the heart of Brazil there was a portal to a lost city filled with gold.
The Kon-Tiki Expedition
Thor Heyerdahl
(publisher José Olimpio)
where you will travel: From Peru to French Polynesia.
what the trip will be like: For 101 days, Norwegian Thor Heyerdahl, accompanied by five other men and a parrot, traveled on a wooden raft to prove his theory that French Polynesia was populated by people from South America.
Voyage
Graciliano Ramos
(edited by: José Olimpio)
where you will travel: Former Soviet republics and Czechoslovakia.
what the trip will be like: After traveling “like a crazed cockroach” through destinations such as Ukraine and Georgia, the Alagoas writer recorded his experience in ‘Viagem’, a posthumous book published in 1954, a year after his death, which recently received a new edition with illustrations by Cândido Portinari on the cover and rare photographs of Graciliano during the trip.
Twilights don’t fit the world
Eduardo Vessoni
(Patua publisher)
where you will travel: Amazonia, North-East and Rio de Janeiro.
what the trip will be like: In his debut book, the editor of Travel by fare brings chronicles with curiosity about the experiences of (anti-traveler) Mário de Andrade, collected after an extensive three-year research in books, chronicles, letters, photographs and postcards.
Diary of a Pantanal journalist
Claudia Gaigher
(Pantanal Documents)
where you will travel: Pantanal.
what the trip will be like: With 30 stories lived since the journalist moved to Campo Grande (MS), the book goes from the discoveries of the first trips to the Pantanal to the catastrophic (and incendiary) last years.
How to be Carioca
Priscilla Ann Goslin
(Livros TwoCan publisher)
where you will travel: Rio de Janeiro.
What the trip will be like: Due to countless questions and doubts from friends and family about Rio, the author, who has lived part of her life in Brazil, gives cheerful advice to foreigners on how to live and move around the wonderful city of Rio.
Hippies
Paolo Coelho
(Companhia das Letras)
where you will travel: Europe and Central Asia.
what the trip will be like: The award-winning Brazilian writer recounts his experience on the Magic Bus, as alternative bus travel on the other side of the world was known in the 1970s. Considered the Brazilian’s most autobiographical book, the author also describes his experiences at Machu Picchu. in Peru, in Amsterdam, in the Netherlands, and even a problem in Vila Velha, in Paraná.
Until the end of the world
Paul Theroux
(Objective Publisher)
where you will travel: New York, Patagonia, Northern Ireland, Iran, Afghanistan, among other destinations.
what the trip will be like: In travel chronicles, published in six previous works by the author, including “The Great Railway Bazaar”, a 1975 best seller in which he describes rail travel between Europe and Asia, from chaotic India to the inconveniences of the Trans-Siberian Railway.
Grow up and go away
Tamara Klink
(Publisher Peiropolis)
where you will travel: North Sea.
what the trip will be like: Tamara talks about her first solo trip, between Norway and France, on the small sailing boat ‘Sardinha’ which she bought, at the age of 24, without her family knowing or having time to dissuade her from the idea.
Sovietistan
Erika Fatland
(Editor Ayine)
where you will travel: From invoked countries such as North Korea, Kazakhstan and Belarus, among others.
what the trip will be like: It is a journey through 14 countries and three breakaway republics, across more than 60 thousand kilometers of elastic, Russian-influenced borders, such as China, Mongolia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, as well as the Baltic and Scandinavian countries.
Source: Terra
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