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Re:Cash Cows by vinniepukh on Saturday November 25, 2023 @01:32PM (#38415415)
Off-topic: I'm looking to read more old books and the genre of travel diaries from the eighteenth century that the author mentioned seems very interesting.

Does anyone have recommendations for those kinds of books?

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Re:Cash Cows by loufe on Saturday November 25, 2023 @02:17PM (#38415800)
The naturalist in Nicaragua by Thomas Belt was pretty good. I really enjoy learning about ant colonies which drove me to it orginally.

Darwin himself liked it (as they advertise with the book) "The best of all natural history journals which have ever been published."—Charles Darwin

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Re:Cash Cows by sdenton4 on Saturday November 25, 2023 @09:46PM (#38418727)
Alexandra David-Neel was a force of nature. There's an English translation of 'My Journey to Lhasa' that is well worth tracking down. You'll never look at a border guard the same way again.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_David-N%C3%A9el

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Re:Cash Cows by antonhowes on Wednesday November 29, 2023 @05:51PM (#38466434)
OP here: I'd recommend Daniel Defoe's travels through Britain as a good place to start, written in the 1720s. You might also like Celia Fiennes's travels in the 1690s. The travel diaries of the brothers Rochefoucauld, whom I cited, can all be easily cited - their travel through Suffolk (which is more interesting than it sounds, as it contains their general early impressions of England) can be found in its entirety online. All can be found with a little googling.
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