SOLVED. Book over 1000 pages, had a map in the beginning of the book. About a person (male?) who has to travel.

[Kaitlynn]

The person has to travel to different areas, meeting new people or animals (that can talk?). Read between 2019-2020, written well before that but I believe after 2000. Cover I believe had red, yellow, and orange colors. That is all I can remember at the moment, I’ll update if I remember anything else.

[Robert]

West of January, by Dave Duncan?

""West of January tells the story of a world where time moves very slowly. On the planet Vernier the sun creeps across the sky, returning to the same point every two hundred years. It takes a lifetime for each region of the planet to experience dawn, midday and dusk. The ramifications for the inhabitants are dramatic - entire civilizations have been scorched into oblivion, and every individual is forced to adapt to this harsh environment or face certain catastrophe." Enter Knobil, a young herdsman cast out of his tribe, sentenced to perish in this brutal landscape. Luckily, he is saved by "angels" - people trying to help the tortured planet by preserving past technologies. As Knobil travels across his world, he realizes he has been chosen for a special destiny."

At least one edition has a red-yellow colour spectrum cover:

[Kaitlynn]

No that’s not it. Thank you though

[Kaitlynn]

I believe the title included the word “adventure” or “adventures of” or something of that variant

[Kaitlynn]

I found the book. It is 13 1/2 Lives of Blue Bear by Walter Moers