Justin Marozzi

How to tether your camel and other useful tips

Barnaby Rogerson’s collected quotations on travel, from Odysseus to Oscar Wilde, makes you want to head off immediately, destination unknown

Young camels tethered in the Gobi desert. [Getty Images] 
issue 29 October 2022

Here’s a treat for Christmas: a bona fide literary treasure for under a tenner. And a handsome little hardback, too, which you could certainly squeeze into a stocking. On Travel and the Journey Through Life is an anthology of one-liners and observations on travel, from the high-spirited and romantic to the moody and downright cynical.

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