And the ideal travel writer is consumed not just with a will to know. He is also moved by a powerful will to teach.
Paul FussellTravelers learn not just foreign customs and curious cuisines and unfamiliar beliefs and novel forms of government. They learn, if they are lucky, humility.
Paul FussellAll the pathos and irony of leaving oneโs youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel
Paul FussellA guide book is addressed to those who plan to follow the traveler, doing what he has done, but more selectively. A travel book, in its purest, is addressed to those who do not plan to follow the traveler at all, but who require the exotic or comic anomalies, wonders and scandals of the literary form romance which their own place or time cannot entirely supply.
Paul Fussell