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professional explorers
“People used to be travelers, Mark,” he said, stirring his coffee. “Now they’re tourists.
martini explorer,”
family’s wanderlust and distaste for making small plans.
If a man was going to work that hard, the world ought to know about it.
“When you get your M.A., you can have your A. M.”
most of us are perfectly content to have slightly-above-averageness thrust upon us.
extreme expeditions to the earth’s remaining frontiers.
Bingham’s Journal of an Expedition Across Venezuela and Colombia.
“Let us not complain at our long separation but rejoice in the opportunity to accomplish a good piece of work,”
geography as destiny.
I’d always assumed that nothing worth discovering remained hidden on the face of the earth.
Rudyard Kipling’s poem “The Explorer”:
INC—Vitcos is so far off the main tourist trail that they don’t even bother charging admission—we
’ “It used to take three weeks to get people in the right frame of mind, to un-brainwash them. Now it would take three months just to get people’s heads straightened out.
It’s a real problem now—people don’t know how to enjoy life. They want hedonism, short-term thrills.”
The only books I had with me were Bingham’s, and I’d read them all twice. Not for the first time, I thought about how I’d give a hundred dollars for any one of the four copies of Great Expectations buried somewhere in my attic.
