In America there are two classes of travel--first class, and with children. Travelling with children corresponds roughly to travel...ling third-class in Bulgaria. They tell me there is nothing lower in the world than third-class Bulgarian travel.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A shadow has fallen upon the scenes so lately lighted by the Allied victory.... From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adria...tic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A guide book is addressed to those who plan to follow the traveler, doing what he has done, but more selectively. A travel book, i...n its purest, is addressed to those who do not plan to follow the traveler at all, but who require the exotic or comic anomalies, wonders and scandals of the literary form romance which their own place or time cannot entirely supply.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"The age of independent travel is drawing to an end," said E.M. Forster back in 1920, when it had been increasingly clear for deca...des that the mass production inevitable in the late industrial age had generated its own travel-spawn, tourism, which is to travel as plastic is to wood. If travel is mysterious, even miraculous, and often lonely and frightening, tourism is commonsensical, utilitarian, safe, and social, "that gregarious passion," the traveler Patrick Leigh Fermor calls it, "which destroys the object of its love." Not self-directed but externally enticed, as a tourist you go not where your own curiosity beckons but where the industry decrees you shall go. Tourism soothes, shielding you from the shocks of novelty and menace, confirming your prior view of the world rather than shaking it up. It obliges you not just to behold conventional things but to behold them in the approved conventional way.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Should the German people lay down their arms, the Soviets ... would occupy all eastern and south-eastern Europe together with the ...greater part of the Reich. Over all this territory, which with the Soviet Union included, would be of enormous extent, an iron curtain would at once descend.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are told that every American boy has the chance of being president. I tell you that these little boys in the iron cages would s...ell their chance any day for good square meals and a chance to play.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »