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Flight is the cartographic, planetary equivalent of hearing a song covered by a singer you love, or meeting for the first time a relative whose features or mannerisms are already familiar. We know the song but not like this; we have never met this person and yet we have never in our lives been strangers.
A measure of longing is attached to any mode of travel, of course. By definition every traveller wishes, or needs, to be somewhere else.
Many travellers who ask for window seats are fans of what the earth shows of itself – its natural elements such as mountains, coastlines, rivers and the valleys that cradle them.
