The Phantom Atlas Quotes

“In the Welsh language there is a particularly beautiful word: ‘Hiraeth’. It has no direct English translation, but the general sense of the term is an overwhelming feeling of grief and longing for one’s people and land of the past, a kind of amplified spiritual homesickness for a place one has never been to.”
― Edward Brooke-Hitching, The Phantom Atlas: The Greatest Myths, Lies and Blunders on Maps