Roads not travelled

Descripción
Anti-travelogues: texts about not travelling, about places not visited, or about travelling without leaving home.
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Planos Paralelos
por Ursula K. Le Guin
1,756 miembros
51 reseñas
3.8
Member
spiphany
Explicaciones
spiphany: An answer to the tedium of waiting in airports.
2
Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot on and Never Will
por Judith Schalansky
1,016 miembros
42 reseñas
4.2
Member
spiphany
3
Tren de Moscu a Petouchki
por Venedikt Erofeev
938 miembros
18 reseñas
3.9
Member
spiphany
Explicaciones
spiphany: A drunken train journey in which the protagonist fails to arrive at his intended destination
4
El Sueno de Un Cartografo
por James Cowan
606 miembros
14 reseñas
½ 3.3
Member
spiphany
5
The Helmet of Horror: The Myth of Theseus and the Minotaur
por Viktor Pelevin
569 miembros
17 reseñas
½ 3.3
Member
spiphany
6
Journey Around My Room and a Nocturnal Expedition Around My Room (Hesperus Classics)
por Xavier de Maistre
81 miembros
1 reseña
½ 3.7
Member
spiphany
7
How to Talk About Places You've Never Been: On the Importance of Armchair Travel
por Pierre Bayard
78 miembros
2 reseñas
½ 3.4
Member
spiphany
8
Traveling in Place: A History of Armchair Travel
por Bernd Stiegler
50 miembros
2 reseñas
½ 2.7
Member
spiphany
9
Lost Islands: The Story of Islands That Have Vanished from Nautical Charts
por Henry Stommel
43 miembros
2 reseñas
½ 4.3
Member
spiphany
Explicaciones
spiphany: On places that cannot be visited.
10
The Scapegoat
por Johan Borgen
14 miembros
2 reseñas
3
Member
bluepiano
Explicaciones
bluepiano: *Possibly* travelling without leaving home--protagonist goes but he doesn't, stays though he doesn't.
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Wunderbare Jahre: Als wir noch die Welt bereisten
por Sibylle Berg
13 miembros
3
Member
spiphany
Explicaciones
spiphany: On the disappointments of travel never living up to one's expectations.