The writer Paul Theroux is as well known for his travel writing as he is for his novels, though in his latest publication, a book of essays with the title Figures in a Landscape, he describes himself as ‘semi well-known’ – surely an understatement.
To be fair this is in context of recommending making journeys about which you hope to gather material as anonymously as possible lest you influence events around you and interactions with others along the way. He describes this as his way of doing things.