Books penned by authors before the 1700s you've read and would recommend. I don't care if they're tomes of entertaining lies like the histories of the father of lies, travelogues by awful british men, collections of excrepable poetry or crazed scrawlings of wizards. Just things you've read and had a good time with. No bibles thanks, we have enough threads on the topic right now.Poetry: England's Helicon was a touch difficult to slog through but rewarding. I'm not a man of poetry, but every now and then a line just tears into your morning. "And to die, in the spirit but not the flesh, and to go on."Travelogues: Periplus of the Erythraean Sea is a 1st to 3rd century account of seafaring in the mediterranean that's accounted as accurate. It was a fascinating look at the region at the time, what they thought was important, what was recorded. What shines through the gaps.An honourable mention to Burckhardt's Travels in Arabia for all it's an 1800s novel.
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