Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-195).
Contents:
Prologue: A murder in Loughborough -- Why travel matters -- A new place -- New people -- A new world -- How to travel -- Epilogue: Our insane restlessness.
Summary:
Why Travel Matters explores the profound life lessons that await anyone who wishes to learn what travel has to teach. With engaging prose, delightful wit and a distinctive style, Craig Storti infuses his own experiences traveling the world for 30+ years with quotations, insights, reflections and commentary from famous travelers, great travel writers, historians and literary masters. Storti's vast knowledge of the literature makes him an expert curator of astute gems from the likes of: St. Augustine, Mark Twain, Somerset Maugham, D. H. Lawrence, Bruce Chatwin, Aldous Huxley and more.
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