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What do you think is the best fictional story of a journey? Obvious choices would include:
The Hobbit/LotR
Just about anything by Kerouac
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Paradise Lost
Huck Finn
The Odyssey
If you were compiling a list of the greatest travelogues of all time, what do you think would have to be on it?
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On first blush, I'd add "Gulliver's Travels", "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", and "Journey to the Center of the Earth". Let me cogitate on it a couple of days and I may have a few more.
Oh - and anything 'Star Trek'.
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James Joyce, Ulysses, with the last chapter, Molly Bloom's Soliloquy, as one of the highlights of modern literature.
"Before I speak, I have something important to say."Groucho Marx
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I love "The Incredible Journey" by Sheila Burnford. First saw it at the cinema as a youngster, then read the book. I was in awe of the possibility of animals being able to express themselves in a "human" way. Lump in the throat, every time.
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Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver, Michael Ende
"Before I speak, I have something important to say."Groucho Marx
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Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
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Three Men In A Boat, Jerome K Jerome
A Walk In The Woods, Bill Bryson
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Off the top of my head..
The Walking Drum, Louis L'Amour
Adventure of three Englishmen and three Russians, Jules Verne
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (all the five parts of the trilogy ;-) by Douglas Adams
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The Grapes of Wrath
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Jyrkkä Jätkä wrote:The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (all the five parts of the trilogy ;-) by Douglas Adams
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