“On foot, unlike other forms of travel, it is impossible to be out of touch.”
―Patrick Leigh Fermor, A Time of Gifts
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Even with the best of maps and instruments, we can never fully chart our journeys.
Travel Quotation
April 28, 2014
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Book Review
April 26, 2014
A Visit to Don Otavio: A Mexican Journey
By Sybille Bedford. Introduction by Bruce Chatwin. Originally published in 1953. Dutton, Obelisk Paperback, 1986, 288 pp.
A Visit to Don Otavio was the first book published by Sybille Bedford, a novelist and journalist admired for her intelligence, wit, and prose style. Originally published in 1953 as The Sudden View: A Mexican Journey, the book was wisely reprinted by Dutton in 1986 and renamed with a title that is at once slightly misleading and also more apt. Misleading, because much of the work focuses on other Mexican travels ; apt, because the visit to Don Otavio is the centerpiece of the work and Otavio himself unquestionably the star. Read More
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Links of Interest
April 23, 2014
Travel writer Elizabeth Marcus has written some wonderful essays, especially—and most humorously—about traveling with family. I recommend taking a look at her beautifully illustrated website.
Travel Quotation
April 16, 2014
"Traveling makes one modest...You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world."
―Flaubert
Book Review
April 3, 2014
Spring Jaunts: Some Walks, Excursions and Personal Explorations of Town, Country and Seashore.
By Anthony Bailey. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1986, 251 pp.
For Anthony Bailey, landscape is a text he reads and elucidates with obvious pleasure. Where some writers use place as a springboard for a personal essay, Bailey does the reverse, using some personal tie as a springboard for writing about a place: its topography, its inhabitants, its history. Read More