There's books that are about places we will never go, and then there's books that inspire us to go.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I don't like to travel. Yet all my books seem to involve a journey.
It's kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that.
Good travel books, like travel itself, open the door to new worlds. In the strongest works the author's vision becomes our own, especially if his or her subject is a distant destination.
When a book is going well, it tells you where to go.
'Oh, the Places You'll Go!,' by Dr. Seuss, is still one of my favorite books ever.
A travel book is a book that puts you in the shoes of the traveler, and it's usually a book about having a very bad time; having a miserable time, even better.
Books are magic: you never know where they're going to end up.
We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.
Travel books are, by and large, boring. They lodge uncomfortably between fact, fiction and autobiography.
The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.