Download or read book Wanderings a Book of Travel and Reminiscence (Classic Reprint) written by Richard Curle and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-04 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Wanderings a Book of Travel and Reminiscence The basis of this book is autobiography, but the intention is not really autobiographical, and the five-and-twenty chapters, each complete in itself, into which the work has been divided have been placed purposely in seemingly haphazard order. They constitute a straightforward record of experiences in an attempt to create various atmospheres and to enunciate occasional opinions, and the few unifying ideas at the root of them can be ascertained by any reader interested in such mattes. Travel is endlessly fascinating, and I am so ardently bitten with the desire of it that I hope to have materials before long for another volume such as this, indeed, for other volumes; yet I see more and more that there is a danger of its developing into a form of intellectual mania. The craving for the new, with its vast reflex of poetic associations, builds about reality a honeycomb of obscure design wherein you may roam from one phantom chamber to another and lose yourself in false visions of the rounded globe. Romance, awaiting continually its consummation, grows exacting as the lust of power, and saps not alone the deeper imaginative gift but that particular, invaluable attitude which is called "Good Europeanism." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.