Roads not travelled

Description
Anti-travelogues: texts about not travelling, about places not visited, or about travelling without leaving home.
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Changing Planes
by Ursula K. Le Guin
1,756 members
51 reviews
3.8
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spiphany
Explanations
spiphany: An answer to the tedium of waiting in airports.
2
Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot on and Never Will
by Judith Schalansky
1,016 members
42 reviews
4.2
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spiphany
3
Moscow Circles
by Venedikt Erofeev
940 members
18 reviews
3.9
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spiphany
Explanations
spiphany: A drunken train journey in which the protagonist fails to arrive at his intended destination
4
A Mapmaker's Dream: The Meditations of Fra Mauro, Cartographer to the Court of Venice
by James Cowan
606 members
14 reviews
½ 3.3
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spiphany
5
The Helmet of Horror: The Myth of Theseus and the Minotaur
by Viktor Pelevin
570 members
17 reviews
½ 3.3
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spiphany
7
How to Talk About Places You've Never Been: On the Importance of Armchair Travel
by Pierre Bayard
78 members
2 reviews
½ 3.4
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spiphany
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Traveling in Place: A History of Armchair Travel
by Bernd Stiegler
50 members
2 reviews
½ 2.7
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spiphany
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Lost Islands: The Story of Islands That Have Vanished from Nautical Charts
by Henry Stommel
43 members
2 reviews
½ 4.3
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spiphany
Explanations
spiphany: On places that cannot be visited.
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The Scapegoat
by Johan Borgen
14 members
2 reviews
3
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bluepiano
Explanations
bluepiano: *Possibly* travelling without leaving home--protagonist goes but he doesn't, stays though he doesn't.
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Wunderbare Jahre: Als wir noch die Welt bereisten
by Sibylle Berg
13 members
3
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spiphany
Explanations
spiphany: On the disappointments of travel never living up to one's expectations.