I found some travel-related books about 'bold men who had the tenacity to express themselves' as part of a larger book donation project I outlined in my recent book, OK2BG, in a scholastic effort to help kids at-risk, or puzzled young adults discover & reinforce their goals & perhaps find a potential role model.
Click the 'guy lost with a map' and/or 'on top of the world' pic below to read my Travel Newsletter of (24) travel books as a virtual recommendation for a random road-trip 'in & around' America, as a good place to start your engines, for any future travels around the world.
Click the B/W picture below of a 'guy working on his car' to find a rather lengthy list of more than 700 books 'by or about' more than 500 American guys born in all 50 U.S. States (with the exception of one state, which is still under investigation), presented together with at least one book about each guy, describing some portion of his life, in either Memoir, Biography, Autobiography, or Anthology format.
This self-styled, academic attempt to 'research & refurbish' a literary list of bold men who had the tenacity to express themselves, is my endeavor to encourage people to embrace diversity, together in an effort to help kids at-risk, or puzzled young adults find a potential role model; from a long list of brave & brilliant men, in my opinion, who yearned to define their lives in a non-traditional approach, in order to achieve some personal freedom, in a wide variety of occupations, while altogether inclusive for more than 200 years, w/regard to my selective study.
Other lists will soon follow, to include other countries, but this initial list encompasses only America, at this time, as a first installment of some very knowledgeable men, who might be considered emboldened activists or reflective role models for the state of human rights, worldwide.
All the birth dates of the 500+ guys listed, range from the Painter, Washington Allston born in Georgetown, South Carolina in 1779, to the young Entrepreneur, Jack Andraka born in Crownsville, Maryland in 1997.
I hesitate to say that I've only read 44 books, so far, from the total list, but I will continue to read as many more as I can, to hopefully find other options for further adventures.
Click the 'guy under the VW Bug' in the pic below, to view the list of 700 books 'by or about' 500 guys from 50 U.S. states.
The following (21) travel-related books below are listed in a quasi-alphabetical order by the country visited, by each author, on his worldwide travels, in whatever year or century.
Some books are older than dirt, but should still include a unique perspective to a place in history that may, purportedly no longer exist, at least in the same recognizable way, when the author first visited there, although might still exist in some tenacious way today, however in a slightly different & imperceptible venue, either psychologically, geographically, architecturally, or perhaps politically.
Click on the picture far below the books about Africa, to view another list of books about a variety of other countries; for example, India.
Africa
Behind God's Back / by Negley Farson / 1941
Last Chance in Africa / by Negley Farson / 1954
North African Notebook / by Robin Maugham / 1949
Somebody Else: Arthur Rimbaud in Africa, 1880-1891
by Charles Nicholl / 1999
Wild Man / by Tobias Schneebaum / 2003
Remote People / by Evelyn Waugh / 1985
Labels: a Mediterranean Journal / by Evelyn Waugh / 1930
Waugh in Abyssinia / by Evelyn Waugh / 1936
A Tourist in Africa / by Evelyn Waugh / 1986
A Certain Curve of Horn: The Hundred-Year Quest for the Giant Sable Antelope of Angola / by John Frederick Walker / 2004
(includes info about Quentin Keynes)
Quentin Keynes: Explorer, Film-Maker, Lecturer & Book Collector, ...1921-2003
by Simon Keynes / 2004
Reflections in a Writer's Eye: Travel Pieces / by Angus Wilson / 1987
(essay entitled, My Mother's Land / by Angus Wilson)
Gay Travels - A Literary Companion / by Lucy Jane Bledsoe / 1998
(essay entitled, Obi's Story / by Cary Alan Johnson)
(essay entitled, Tangier Diary / by Joe Orton)
Big Trips: More Good Gay Travel Writing / by Raphael Kadushin / 2008
(essay entitled, Egypt, In One Sense / by Clifford Chase)
Wonderlands: Good Gay Travel Writing / Raphael Kadushin / 2004
(essay entitled, Tea with Paul Bowles: From a Tangier Diary, 1991 / by Edward Field)
Days: Tangier Journal: 1987-1989 / Paul Bowles / 2006
Wit and Wisdom in Morocco; a Study of Native Proverbs
by Edvard Westermarck / 1931
The Belief in Spirits in Morocco / by Edvard Westermarck / 1920
Fountains in the Sand - Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia
by Norman Douglas / 1912
(available to read on archive.org / click the book cover)
A Journey to Central Africa; or, Life and Landscapes from Egypt to the Negro Kingdoms of the White Nile / by Bayard Taylor / 1870
Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour: a Narrative Drawn from Gustave Flaubert's Travel Notes & Letters (1849) / by Gustave Flaubert / 1979
Click the pic of 'the blank wooden sign' below, to view a list of more books about faraway destinations > South Asia > India.
