Paul Theroux quote: The appeal of travel books is also the sense that you are different, an outsider, almost like the Robinson Crusoe ...

The appeal of travel books is also the sense that you are different, an outsider, almost like the Robinson Crusoe or Christopher Columbus notion of being the first person in a new place.

~ Paul Theroux ~

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