For years, I meant to read 'Arabian Sands', Wilfred Thesiger's account of two punishing camel journeys during the late 1940s across Southern Arabia's Empty Quarter. Now that I have, I can sheepishly join the chorus of those who revere the book as one of the half dozen greatest works of modern English travel writing.
Copy QuoteThough we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
Copy Quote View & ShareNo one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.
Copy Quote View & ShareI travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
Copy Quote View & ShareIf all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.
Copy Quote View & ShareI never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
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