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Originally Posted by issybird
Not denying there’s a lot of art involved in good travel writing, but it needs to fall far short of outright fabrication. Of course memories are suspect, too.
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In here, in 1993 Lorenzo Cherubini, also known as "Jovanotti", which was and is a well known singer (despite being, those times, kindly a "paninaro"), wrote a book that I'd found fantastic (I don't know if mentioning it while it's not transalted might be too OT), "Il grande Boh!" (The great Boh! - "Boh" as onomatopoeia): he traveled 1200 km within his racing bicycle in Brazil arriving in Tierra del Fuego.
The book was great, his simple stance despite being well known in music, letting all things aside, girlfriend included for those months.
But yes: shortly after, as many others artists likewise, it became to grow just the turd part of him LOL.
The book was surprising because, even if he already was a "City guy", the narration in there is quite modest, but again, lasted just for the narration time
(but imho).
Maybe worth mentioning, as travelling books, "On the road" by Jack Kerouac (started 3 times but by those times never read it entirely).
*(by the way, hi
, and an "hooray" for the forums calm-arium environment. Thanks).
Ah, there are some others books that would had been great, slightly in the topic imho: the Routards Guides, personally I'd used once one in '98, for a travel in Mexico.
Can't not say those travellers made the bestest guides ever, there was places and descriptions that even locals wouldn't had known; too I have to say times were different.