Why Travel Matters
A Guide to the Life-Changing Effects of Travel
$25.32
- Paperback
202 pages
- Release Date
26 October 2021
Summary
Why Travel Matters explores the profound life lessons that await anyone who wishes to learn what travel has to teach. With engaging prose, delightful wit, and a distinctive style, Craig Storti infuses his own experiences traveling the world for 30+ years with quotations, insights, reflections, and commentary from famous travelers, great travel writers, historians, and literary masters. Storti’s vast knowledge of the literature makes him an expert curator of astute gems from the likes…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529345575 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 152934557X |
| Author: | Craig Storti |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | John Murray Publishers Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 202 |
| Release Date: | 26 October 2021 |
| Weight: | 191g |
| Dimensions: | 188mm x 132mm x 16mm |
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The farther I got into this book, the more I wished I had read it 50 years ago. Invaluable.
The farther I got into this book, the more I wished I had read it 50 years ago. Invaluable. – Sandra M. Fowler, President-Elect SIETAR USAFor those who have truly travelled, this is a warm, familiar tale; for those who only tour or sit at home, this may be the spark needed to whet one’s wanderlust. * San Francisco Book Review *A philosophical and anthropological exploration of how the act of travelling alters the traveller. – Nick Hunt, author of ‘Where the WIld WInds Are’In practical steps, Why Travel Matters demonstrates ways we can go beyond mere tourism to become enlightened participants in new places everywhere. For all travellers - not to mention interculturalists - this book is a must. – Fanchon Silberstein, Former Director The Overseas Briefing Center, US Dept. of StateA highly intelligent and deeply engaging book that examines not only the beauty but also the importance of travel. – Thomas Swick, author ‘The Joys of Travel: And Stories that Illuminate Them’
About The Author
Craig Storti
Craig Storti is founder and co-director of Communicating Across Cultures, a Washington DC-based intercultural communication training and consulting firm. With work appearing in the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and Chicago Tribune, he is the author of six books. Having lived nearly a quarter of his life abroad, he lives now in Maryland.
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