Accompanied in this volume by its equally superb sequel, A Nocturnal Expedition around My Room, A Journey around My Room is a masterly and innovative piece of writing about room-travel.
Xavier De Maistre (1763–1852) was an aristocrat and army officer and is best known for his mock-travelogue A Journey around my Room, which he wrote while under arrest for having participated in a duel.
De Maistre… found the utmost strangeness in himself and the things
he had taken for granted.
*The Times*
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