Go, Your Travels

Name: Go, Your Travels
ISBN: 9787540479893

阿SamHunan Literature and Art Publishing House2017

3.5

Word count: 320K words
Chapters: 26
Series: Life Aesthetics Trilogy
ISBN: 9787540479893

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Summary

Go, Your Travels is a collection of travel essays by the lifestyle aesthete and writer A Sam (Xia Tianhong) and the first volume of his "Lifestyle Aesthetics Trilogy" (the other two being While This Body Is Not Yet Old and After All, Just a Life). The author began with his blog-era writing on "A Sam's Midnight Show," turning his travel observations and moods into words paired with the quiet images he photographed himself. He treats Shanghai as the starting point and endpoint of his journeys, beginning with the Changde Apartments and writing about half-dreaming city life, then traveling halfway around the globe: the sea in Sydney, happiness and unhappiness in Melbourne, nostalgia in Tokyo, drip coffee in Saigon, fireworks in Seoul, the lively December nights of Taipei, and longing in Bangkok. After that, he draws his gaze back from distant places to write about Beijing, Xiamen, Fuzhou, and Shangri-La—places of "life elsewhere"—then returns to memories of Singapore, Adelaide, Wuhan, and small towns along the Yangtze. The journeys in the book are often intertwined with past emotions: the author once thought escaping a city could heal a heartbreak, that going to her city would let him feel tenderness again, and that walking on stubbornly would lead to happiness; later he understood that "being on the road" is simply being on the road. The fully revised 2017 edition adds tens of thousands of characters of new essays on ideal lifestyles and "Tokyo Food Notes," and adopts a full-color collector's format, while preserving the warmth and quiet solitude of the writing.

Editor's review

这不是一本攻略书，更像一本可以在深夜慢慢读的“旅行独白”。阿Sam的写法介于散文与小说之间：城市只是背景，真正的主角是行走的人和他放不下的情绪。悉尼的海岸线、墨尔本的街角、东京的深夜、西贡的一杯滴漏咖啡、首尔升起的烟火、台北热闹的十二月、曼谷不熄的思念，都被他写得轻，却余味很重。他写上海，从常德公寓的旧日气息写到自己半梦半醒的日常；写北京、厦门、福州、香格里拉、武汉，也都不停留在景点介绍上，而是写城市如何容纳一个人的此刻。2017年修订版是此书流传最广的版本：新增数万字关于理想生活方式的随笔与“东京美食札记”，全彩印刷，图片还原度高，适合收藏，也适合当作礼物。如果你喜欢欧阳应霁式的城市生活书写，或曾在旅途中反复咀嚼一段感情，这本书会让你觉得被人陪着走了很远。

Who it's for

A good fit for

喜欢旅行随笔、城市书写与生活方式读物的读者
偏爱图文并茂、文字清寂的散文集的文艺青年
在都市生活中感到疲惫，想借阅读“出走”片刻的人
关注阿Sam“生活美学三部曲”的读者，或想收藏全彩修订版的读者

Not a good fit for

希望得到实用路线、交通住宿攻略的旅行者
不喜欢私人情绪与情感回忆穿插在旅行叙述中的读者
期待密集景点介绍与硬核地理人文知识的读者

Reading tips

不必按顺序读，可以挑一个当下想去的城市，读对应章节，再回头补读首尾的上海部分。
把它当睡前或通勤读物，一次读一两篇；作者的文字清淡，慢读比一口气读完更有味道。
读到情绪浓处可以放下书，想想自己在旅途中放不下的那个人或那段时光，再继续。
若喜欢本书，可接着读《趁，此身未老》与《不过，一场生活》，看作者如何从“在路上”写到日常。

About the publisher

Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House China · Founded in 1985

Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House is a publisher known for its literary titles, with a catalogue spanning foreign literature, world classics, classical Chinese literature, essays and miscellaneous writings, and mystery and detective fiction. Judging from the more than 1,100 books in the database, the press publishes foreign classics such as Crime and Punishment, Snow Country, The Complete Sherlock Holmes and Letter from an Unknown Woman, as well as Chinese classical and modern literary works including Lu Xun's Wandering and A Madman's Diary and Wu Jingzi's The Scholars. In terms of translators and authors, translations by Cao Guowei and Tan Jinghua appear in its foreign literature titles, and the authors involved include Dostoevsky, Kawabata Yasunari, Conan Doyle and Zweig. Its publishing character lies in introducing Chinese and foreign literary classics side by side, balancing popular and serious works and attending to both readability and literary value. Public information is limited; the above is a brief overview based solely on the books in the database.

Preface: Youth, Dreams, Travelers
Chapter 1 Shanghai—Starting Point and Endpoint
Starting from the Changde Apartments
A Half-Dreaming Life
Good Morning, Shanghai
Chapter 2 Halfway Around the Globe
Sydney—Facing the Sea, Spring Flowers Bloom
The Long Road to Sydney
A City That Befriends the Sea
Melbourne—Don't Say You're Unhappy
Tokyo—Better to Miss Than to Meet
Saigon—Drip Coffee upon Waking from a Dream
Seoul—Watch a Splendid Fireworks Show with You
Taipei—Hiding in the Lively December Night
Bangkok—Longing Never Closes
Chapter 3 Life Elsewhere
Beijing—A Back Garden for the Mood
Xiamen—C Major After the Rain
Fuzhou—City of Alcohol
Shangri-La—The Meaning of Travel
Chapter 4 Small-Town Memories
Singapore—The Ice Cream Taste of Little India
Adelaide—A Bottle of Penfolds Red Wine on the Hilltop
Wuhan—Summer in the River City
The Yangtze—A Hometown You Cannot Return To
Afterword

FAQ

这本书是旅行攻略吗？

不是。书中没有路线规划、住宿交通或景点票价等实用信息，更多是作者在各地行走后的随笔与情绪书写，城市只是叙事的背景。想找攻略建议另选旅行指南。

应该选2011年版还是2017年版？

2017年湖南文艺出版社修订版流传更广，新增数万字随笔和“东京美食札记”，并改为全彩典藏装帧；2011年辽宁教育出版社版是初版、内容较少。一般读者选2017年版更合适。

没有读过作者其他书，能直接读这本吗？

可以。本书是“生活美学三部曲”的第一部，独立成篇，先读它反而更顺，之后再读《趁，此身未老》《不过，一场生活》，能看出作者写作重心的变化。

书里的城市线索有哪些？

主要包括上海、悉尼、墨尔本、东京、西贡（胡志明市）、首尔、台北、曼谷，以及北京、厦门、福州、香格里拉、新加坡、阿德莱德、武汉和长江沿线的小镇记忆。2017年版另增“东京美食札记”。

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阿Sam Author

Public information about A Sam is currently limited, with no clear records of their background, nationality, or dates of birth and death. The library holds one work by this author, "Cultural Luminaries Look at the World: Travel Essays" (5 volumes), classified under travel. Judging from the title and genre, the series presents travel essays, with different writers from cultural fields contributing individual volumes. Centered on journeys and observation, it blends travel experiences, cultural impressions, and personal reflection, combining travel record with humanistic essay. Such writing usually does not aim at practical guidebook information but values the narrator's perspective and literary interest, suiting readers drawn to travel literature and cultural observation. Because information about the author is sparse, judgments about style and influence can only be preliminary, pending further material.