Previous journeys had taught me the danger of taking too much stuff.
A journey, I reflected, is of no merit unless it has tested you.
A little imagination goes a long way in Fes.
Move to a new country and you quickly see that visiting a place as a tourist, and actually moving there for good, are two very different things.
The taste for glory can make ordinary men behave in extraordinary ways.
Explorers like to pretend that they are a select breed of people with iron nerve and an ability to endure terrible hardship.