Jacob Szymanski

This is also a book from the 1800s that really falls into this category.

Excellent book.

The Count of Monte Cristo.

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas.

I never shut up about it, so I won't say too much about it.

Amazing tale of revenge, but a good amount of travel.

And sometimes it feels like some chapters are just written specifically just so you can sort of experience the space and the place and time.

Amazingly written too.

has aged brilliantly well but it's important to know that this is like it's a novel it's a work of fiction that heavily utilizes that forward momentum machine of travel that i was telling you about

Do you have any more examples of modern books that lean into this travel and adventure trope?

You mentioned it earlier that we feel like we've sort of run out of places to explore as a frontier.

And so we have to increasingly look at the most ridiculous places.

And that includes places like Summiting Mount Everest.

And one of those books is Into Thin Air by John Krakauer, who is a journalist who was on location during the 1996 Mount Everest disaster, which saw...

Eight climbers get stuck because there was a blizzard that passed through while they were attempting to summit it.

I think overall 12 people died.

But he puts together an account of all the people that were present, the absolute chaos that was going on on the mountain.

And this whole adventure story log, fully based on real events, brought attention to the world to the commercialization of summiting Mount Everest.

And to this day, it's just climbing Mount Everest hasn't had the same mystique.

But the book itself is fantastic and an incredible read.