Article: The Economist’s editor on foreign travel in 1913
THINGS near us are seen life-size, and distance, while it enchants the imagination, destroys the reality. That is a good
Category: early 20th century (pre-1920)
Book: Harry Franck’s All About Going Abroad (1,411 words)
All About Going Abroad by Harry A. Franck Brentano’s, New York (1927) The first obvious question of the prospective
Book: Edith Wharton in Morocco
In Morocco by Edith Wharton Overripeness is…the characteristic of this rich and stagnant civilization. Buildings, people, customs, seem all about
Article: Birth of the American road trip?
It often seemed to me that we were a luxuriously equipped expedition going forth to seek discomfort…But discomfort, after all,
Article: Travel ‘On the Cheap’ with Franz Kafka…guidebook writer
Our democratic age has already provided all of the conditions for easy, universal travel, but this has gone practically unnoticed.
Essay: Santayana’s Philosophy of Travel
Enjoy the world, travel over it, and learn its ways but do not let it hold you … . To possess
Book: Hopkirk – Foreign Devils on the Silk Road
Foreign Devils on the Silk Road by Peter Hopkirk John Murray Among the oasis dwellers of the Taklamakan, strange legends
