Why Travel Matters
A Guide to the Life-Changing Effects of Travel
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When you travel, you have a choice: You can be a tourist and have a nice time, or you can be a traveler and change your life. Why Travel Matters is for those who want to change their lives. 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-plus 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 of St. Augustine, Mark Twain, Somerset Maugham, D. H. Lawrence, Bruce Chatwin, Aldous Huxley and more.
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People who love to travel wish to share their love for travel.
And thus this book. Written by the Love-to-Travel folks to share with other Love-to-Travel folks? Successfully. Written by the Love-to-Travel folks with hopes of converting the Don't-Love folks? Possibly.
I, of course, am in the L-t-T group so I nodded my head throughout the book.
What I liked most about this book:
1. You won't find a better collection of quotes about travel, I think.
2. The author offers a brilliant list of rules called How to Travel.
3. The ultimate question answered: Why does travel matter, then? You will find, the author tells us, that both differences and similarities of place and people work on us.
If you are a L-t-T sort, you will probably appreciate this book, too.
