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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Classic''' | |||
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|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Essays_in_Idleness.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''Essays in Idleness''<br/> ( ) <br/>by Yoshida Kenko </small> | |||
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Anatomy_of_Melancholy.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''The Anatomy of Melancholy''<br/> ( ) <br/>by Robert Burton </small> | |||
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Complete_Essays.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''The Complete Essays''<br/> ( ) <br/>by Mark Twain </small> | |||
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Painter_of_Modern_Life.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays''<br/> ( ) <br/>by Charles Baudelaire </small> | |||
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:in_Defense_of_Sanity.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''In Defense of Sanity: The Best Essays''<br/> ( ) <br/>by G.K. Chesterton </small> | |||
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Further Classic''' | |||
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|colspan=5|<small>''Essays'' ( ) by Francis Bacon </small> | |||
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|colspan=5|<small>''The Complete Essays'' ( ) by Michel de Montaigne </small> | |||
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|colspan=5|<small>''Selected Essays'' ( ) by Samuel Johnson </small> | |||
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|colspan=5|<small>''A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig and Other Essays'' ( ) by Charles Lamb </small> | |||
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|colspan=5|<small>''Walden'' ( ) by Henry David Thoreau </small> | |||
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|colspan=5|<small>''The Essential Writings'' ( ) by Ralph Waldo Emerson </small> | |||
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|colspan=5|<small>''The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose'' ( ) by Oscar Wilde </small> | |||
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|colspan=5|<small>''Essays'' ( ) by Robert Louis Stevenson </small> | |||
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<h2>Philosophy</h2> | <h2>Philosophy</h2> | ||
<h2>Travel Literature</h2> | <h2>Travel Literature</h2> |
Revision as of 13:07, 9 July 2012
Biographies
Essays
Philosophy
Travel Literature
Travel Literature | ||||
General Travels | ||||
The Travels ( ) by Ibn Battutah |
The Journals ( ) of Captain James Cook |
Collected Travel Writing ( ) by Evelyn Waugh |
Travels With Herodotus ( ) by Ryszard Kapuscinsk |
The Way of the World ( ) by Nicolas Bouvier |
More General Travels | ||||
From the Meadows of Gold ( ) by Mas'udi | ||||
Voyages and Discoveries ( ) by Richard Hakluyt | ||||
South: The Endurance Expedition ( ) by Ernest Shackleton | ||||
The Last Grain Race ( ) by Eric Newby | ||||
Pecked to Death by Ducks ( ) by Tim Cahill | ||||
Yoga For People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It ( ) by Geoff Dyer | ||||
Travels in Europe | ||||
Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness ( ) by Ibn Fadlan |
The Innocents Abroad ( ) by Mark Twain |
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon ( ) by Rebecca West |
A Time of Gifts ( ) by Patrick Leigh Fermor |
The Rings of Saturn ( ) by W.G. Sebald |
More Travels in Europe | ||||
Guide to Greece ( ) Pausanias | ||||
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