In the steel forest of the city, how long have you not seen the forest, the wildflowers, and how long have you not heard birds and insects? Nature is the work of the Creator's work, buried with infinite mysterious treasures, waiting for everyone who goes out to bravely explore.
This summer has arrived, and it is the peak of tourism, this is an opportunity to get close to nature and experience humanities, and no one can not hope to go out and see the vast world.
The meaning of travel is not how many places have been visited, but how many scenery has been experienced, and more importantly, every footprint and every strange feeling that has actually traveled through a foreign land.
If you can't set off to travel, the list of books pushed in this issue will also make you feel that on the way to travel, read these travel essay books, let the author's writing take you to appreciate the scenery everywhere.
01
On the way
By Jack Kerouac
Shanghai Translation Publishing House, 2006.10
"On the Road", which was shortlisted for the main competition section of the 65th Cannes Film Festival, although missed the award, contributed a qualified road film, which is adapted from Jack Kerouac's novel of the same name" on the road. As a representative of the Beat generation, Kerouac portrays the character of the decadent, passive, debauched and freedom-seeking young people of that era to the extreme.
In 1948, Jack Kerouac, a Canadian immigrant born in Lowell, Massachusetts, and his friend Neil Cassade drove across the United States, along with rock music, alcohol and drugs, and beautiful women, and finally arrived in Mexico City. The two's travels were eventually written by Kerouac in the book On the Road.
Due to the introduction of Kerouac's personal real Beat state and behavioral thoughts, the style of "On the Road" presents the characteristics of rough and casual, improvised spontaneous creative techniques, similar to the casual feelings and depictions of stream of consciousness, and widely involves American social and cultural customs, and also greatly reflects the turbulent and unrestrained social and adolescents in the United States at that time. Kerouac was also sought after by the Beat generation for this book.
The book not only influenced the entire United States in the sixties, but even in the twenty-first century that followed.
Rock legend and Nobel prize winner for literature Bob Dylan said, "To me, 'On the Road' is like the Bible. He completely changed my life, just as it changed everyone."
To this day, "On the Road" is still a must-read for the younger generation who pursue individuality, and Kerouac is like an idol of these cultural icons, rock and roll, punk, and hippies are all deeply affected by his work. Those who like "On the Road" are fascinated not by their indulgent lifestyle, but by their rebellious spirit and courage to fight life.
02
We always travel hand in hand
Left Hand / Zhang Qianli
Guangming Daily Press, 2012.8
27 years of acquaintance, 11 years of love, 8 years of marriage, 10 years of self-help travel, 23 countries, hundreds of thousands of photos, hundreds of thousands of words... They are green plum bamboo horses, walking through thousands of rivers and mountains; they clasp their hands and love as they walk. "Sooner or later love fades passion, only we always hold hands and travel" is their best love declaration and evidence.
They are a couple, the husband Zhang Qianli is responsible for photography, and the wife's left hand is responsible for the writing of "We Always Hold Hands and Travel". Interpreting their love through travel, using words and pictures, fixing life on the picture of travel, and pursuing travel on top of a dull life is their great happiness.
"We Always Travel Hand in Hand" is a touching travelogue and a vivid and gorgeous love. From Greece to the United States, to Bali, Hokkaido, through Turkey, Sri Lanka, and then to the Maldives, Italy, New Zealand and other places, every photo they take is worth savoring, and the essay text in the left hand is also straight to the heart, written very beautifully, there is no accumulation of gorgeous words, there is no description that deliberately earns people's tears, and some only have records of flowing water, leaving behind full of love and touch.
If you have seen enough of those travel essays with a strong literary and artistic pompous atmosphere, or a guide travelogue that simply describes travel landscapes and stories, then "We Always Hold Hands to Travel" uses the ordinary real travel story of a couple to tell the appearance of life and love. There are objective but not rigid reflections on love, life and travel in the book, which will resonate or inspire people.
03
Life must eventually have a journey that touches the soul
By Bi Shumin
Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House 2017.12
In everyone's heart, there is a distant dream lurking, looking forward to those unmasked people and scenery that have not been appreciated.
It is impossible for everyone to stand still forever, to watch at a glance and see the change in their head and not to be indifferent. The passion for adventure and the search for novelty is a hidden desire in the heart.
So we are born to travel, to take a trip with the heart, to learn humility in the journey, to see the sky is high, the sea is wide, the mountains are high and the water is long.
Traveling will also bring us endless surprises, feel the customs and customs that we have never experienced before, and discover the beautiful scenery hidden in the middle of nowhere. As you go farther, the more you see, you gradually open up your ignorant cognition and expand your broader thinking. How little understanding of the world, how urgent and enthusiastic the search for the unknown, life still needs a journey that can touch the heart!
Writer Bi Shumin wrote a book "Life Must Finally Have a Journey That Touches the Soul" based on the most beautiful experience after the world trip, which takes the author's travel experience in recent years as the theme, collects 23 travelogues and codexes, records a fresh and warm healing trip around the world, and is also an agreement to meet the soul.
Like a wise, funny and generous travel companion, it will take you into a soft time and let the heart bloom quietly. Just in time for the sun to shine, when the breeze is not noisy, I am still young, I can still walk a long way, and I can also tell my deep thoughts, to find the paths, mountains and fields that have appeared in my dreams.
04
If there really is a time machine
[Japanese] by Haruki Murakami
South Sea Publishing Company 2018.5
The world is so vast and boundless, and at the same time it is a small place that can be reached on only two feet. All along, Haruki Murakami has been following her own heart to discover interesting places in this world. "If There Really Were a Time Machine" is a collection of interesting essays written by Haruki Murakami as he travels around the world. It is a fairy tale dedicated to youth, and the travel notes between the lines are like any door that belongs to him, and he is full of the appearance of a traveler wearing a bamboo dragonfly.
Meet tailless sheep and adorable lost birds in moss-covered Iceland, revisit the Greek island, the starting point of Norwegian Woods, and trace distant memories in the increasingly crowded streets. Go to Kumamoto during the rainy season and visit natsume Soseki's former residence... No matter what kind of trip is full of surprises and surprises, many setbacks are turned into endless fun. This is what travel, or the meaning of life.
Life is a one-way line, if there is a time machine, what wish do you want to achieve? It is better to follow Haruki Murakami through the Seven Kingdoms and Eleven Lands, as if riding a time machine through reality, from the Charles River to the Mekong River, from Reykjavik to Tuscany, to discover a warm and interesting world.
05
Cultural journey
Yu Qiuyu
Changjiang Literature and Art Publishing House 2014.2
Everyone who reads "Cultural Bitter Journey" for the first time will be amazed: the writing is so delicate and beautiful, and the meaning is so gentle and profound; every time you read "Cultural Journey", you seem to follow the footsteps of Mr. Yu Qiuyu, from the small town of Jiangnan to the western region outside Saiwai, from the depths of the desert to a foreign country, and sigh with him, laughing and cursing. Wandering between deep words, words into people's hearts, sentences hidden in the heart.
"Cultural Journey" is a work written by Mr. Yu Qiuyu in the late 1980s and early 1990s during lectures and investigations at home and abroad, which is his first collection of cultural essays, using landscapes and rivers to seek the cultural soul and the true meaning of life, explore the historical fate of Chinese culture and the personality of Chinese literati.
It was first published in 1992 and republished in 2014 by Yu Qiuyu. The content mainly includes four parts: the beginning of the dream, the journey to China, the journey to the world, and the journey of life. The text is full of cultural charm, the text is clean and concise, smooth and beautiful, and at the same time reflects the love and understanding of Chinese cultural feelings. Landscapes and landscapes, desert wastelands, everywhere left the author's footprints, but also left the author's thinking.
06
Lonely foodie
[Day] by Ryū murakami
Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House 2020.1
People's memories of food are far beyond imagination. The first time I boiled chicken soup for others, I was scolded and tasteless, and after many years I suddenly understood that maybe that was the reason why I was not loved; often I ate salmon alone, and the smooth and tender fish meat touched the tip of the tongue, maybe this cold was a wonderful sense of loss; the intestinal powder eaten with the person I liked was so salty that I couldn't bear it, so that I would be inexplicably thirsty at the thought of him;
Once at a friend's house, I ate pasta made by a stranger, the taste is unforgettable, and I have long forgotten the appearance of the chef, but because I can't taste it again, I add its deliciousness to the bowl of pasta every year.
If one day you think of a person, and the food you ate with him, that's when you know how lonely tastes.
Praised by Haruki Murakami as "curious as a shark", the writer Murakami Ryu travels to Paris, New York, Vienna, Rome, Tokyo and other fashion capitals, telling 32 stories of food with full color and fragrance. In the book "Lonely Gourmet", the urban food-eating men and women find their own comfort and warmth through their own loneliness through food and chaotic lust.
The Provencal fish soup that keeps people away from sentimentality, the oysters full of lust, the ginseng chicken soup that symbolizes happiness, the sheep brain curry that symbolizes excitement and futility, the truffle that creates hunger and fear, the raw ham that produces guilt in the heart...
Only food knows where your soul goes
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