Agra, India
Stories about travelers are as old as humankind.
One of the earliest travelers’ tales was Homer’s Odyssey, from 800 B.C.E., the story of Odysseus’ journey home after the Trojan Wars.
Howrah Station, Calcutta, India
From Homer to Dante, Xuanzang , Marco Polo and Cervantes to Halliburton, to Kerouac, Durell, Theroux, Iyer, writers have taken their readers along on their travels, whether the journey is fiction, non-fiction, or a combination of both.
Train Station, Burma/Myanmar
“The traveler sees what he sees.The tourist sees what he has come to see.”
- G. K. Chesterton
Burma/Myanmar
He who does not travel does not know the value of men.
– Moorish proverb
Kandahar, Afghanistan
Sri Lanka
Burma/Myanmar
“The World is a book, and those who do not travel
read only a page.”
- St. Augustine
Kandze, Tibet
Kabul, Afghanistan
Burma/Myanmar
Maimana, Afghanistan
Hindu Kush Mountains, Afghanistan
Burma/Myanmar
Kabul, Afghanistan
Russia
