My take, in The Barnes and Noble Review.
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5 October 2010 • 2:04 am 0
Travel Writing is Dead
Originally appeared in Foreign Policy.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, high priest of American letters and patron saint of homebodies everywhere, reserved his harshest words for the voyager. Travel, he famously wrote, “is a fool’s paradise,” a sickness that afflicts those who don’t realize that wisdom is inward. Instead of broadening the mind, travel narrows it. Read the rest of this entry »
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