Off the Beaten Path: A Traveler's AnthologyChronicle Books, 2003 - 80 pagini Laura Stoddart's exquisite and witty drawings have earned her a devoted following. With Off the Beaten Path, she offers a more sublime taste of her artistic talent and sense of humor. In this charming anthology, she pairs her delightful illustrations with sage reflections from intrepid travelers through the ages. Richard Burton on keeping a spouse in the tropics: "There is no place where a wife is so much wanted as in the Tropics; but then comes the rubhow to keep the wife alive." Constance Larymore on surviving Nigeria: "Always wear corsets, to leave off wearing them...is a huge mistake: there is nothing so fatiguing as to lose one's ordinary support." At turns bizarre, hair raising, hilarious, and inspiring, Off the Beaten Path will amuse both happy wanderers and those who are content to stay at home, thank you very much. |
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adventure Amerigo Vespucci Anthony Trollope Art of Tramping Art of Travel Beaten Path Captain James Cook Captain John Carl Linnaeus Christopher Columbus Chronicle Books Constance Larymore corseted Day Lewis DH Lawrence discovered diverse Dogs and Englishmen earth English Ernest Henry Wilson Excursion Fanny Parks France and Italy Francis Bacon Francis Galton Freya Stark Gentle Art go to West go Wandering Going a Journey Himalayan Journals Isles Joseph Banks Journey through France Lady Mary Wortley lands Laura Stoddart's letter to Lady log and journals Mad Dogs maps Marco Polo Mary Kingsley Mary Wortley Montagu native Naturalist in Western never out-of-the-way pairs proverb Resident's Wife Richard Burton Roam Samuel seek Sir John Mandeville Sir Joseph SJ Perelman Spectator Stephen Graham surprised Tourists Travels in Arabia venture further voyage Wander-Thirst wear West Africa Western China wife alive Wife in Nigeria William Hazlitt William Shakespeare Zanzibar
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Pagina 5 - Who seeks the way to win renown, Or flies with wings of high desire, Who seeks to wear the laurel crown, Or hath the mind that would aspire, Let him his native soil eschew, Let him go range and seek a new. Sir