Another great find from Futility Closet, something you won’t see in Waterstones travel section, for sure.
New lands
Confined to his bedroom for 42 days as a punishment for dueling, Xavier de Maistre wrote A Journey Round My Room (1794), a parody of travel journals in which he heroically explores his surroundings and rhapsodizes on his discoveries.
And there’s a copy of it on the Internet Archive too. All that remains is to find a comfy spot in my room to read it.
