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So what's my latest recommendation? Well, you know our whims run to the quirky, but just to keep you slightly off kilter, today's recommendation is outright erudite. That's right, Marta Steele's "Psychology of the Traveler" is a thoughtful rumination on the soft underbelly of the traveler archetype. She is a super perceptive connection-maker, and her reflection weaves together a somewhat abstract but totally engaging web to snare the wander impulse once and for all. Just she capture it? It's an elusive subject, to be sure, but you may be surprised what she's come up with.
To speakers of English, the notion of travel ties in with labor, French travailler. But the French associate travel with being on the road, Latin via, voyager. For the Germans, reisen implies the pirate's brand of roving. Very early on the prototypical tourist Odysseus took the ultimate voyage, climbing, falling, sailing, violating local protocol, other times honoring it exquisitely, risking his life with huge gusto even as he admitted fear...
To speakers of English, the notion of travel ties in with labor, French travailler. But the French associate travel with being on the road, Latin via, voyager. For the Germans, reisen implies the pirate's brand of roving. Very early on the prototypical tourist Odysseus took the ultimate voyage, climbing, falling, sailing, violating local protocol, other times honoring it exquisitely, risking his life with huge gusto even as he admitted fear...