yeh, these sorts of travellogues were a huge thing, though 1940 is a bit recent, and the photography bit is kind of exciting. i'll look it up ^_^
would definitely recommend really anything at all of stella benson's though, mmm, favourite author. will put more up slowly, and there's also a few on gutenberg, though it's all early stuff and her later works are best
@deorsum@lain the problem is one of distribution and dilution. the 英語圏 authors of scientific papers no longer study how to write at any point in their education and are never bothered to read anything outside their field of study, meaning their understanding of "big words" is muddied and inconsistent, relying on dictionaries rather than intuitive understanding. add to that the influence of non-英語圏 researchers and their even more erratic use of english's latinates etc, and the environment becomes one where every paper sounds like a 10th-grade/secondary school essay and no one has the understanding needed for spontaneous nonces or coinages
but no one wants to be the first to stop either X_X
looked it up, seems like it's still being held, only way smaller now. no pools deep enough for swimming, must have had someone complain about potential drowning, and no races, zip-line things and big swings gone, and younger children only, like a half-step up from normal sandbox now, ah well, things change
@lain was a giant mud race thing here when we were smalls, participated in a few times, they'd bring fire trucks and spray all over everywhere, then dig big holes and line them with plastic to make liquid-y mud to swim through, add some blow-up slides and things, ropes to swing from, and just like 100s of kids in heats of 4, or flopping around of on the sidelines, and then sprayed down with the fire hoses and taking turns on the hill-side slides, too fun