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Robyn Davidson

"The genre has moved into this commercial aspect of itself, and ignored this extraordinarily rich literature that's filed everywhere else except under travel."

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"The genre has moved into this commercial aspect of itself, and ignored this extraordinarily rich literature that's filed everywhere else except under travel."

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Amber Hurdle

"You haven't really been anywhere until you've got back home."

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"A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority."

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"The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy."

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Amber Hurdle

"The journey was a worthwhile. We gain new insight into cultural diversity."

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"No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby - so helpless and ridiculous."

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Amber Hurdle

"No,' she says, as if the suggestion is ridiculous. 'I wouldn't go back to where I'm from. I'd go someplace I've never been."

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Amber Hurdle

"We wish to learn all the curious, outlandish ways of all the different countries, so that we can "show off" and astonish people when we get home. We wish to excite the envy of our untraveled friends with our strange foreign fashions which we can't shake off."

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Amber Hurdle

"I've spent the better part of the last twenty-five years doing a lot of traveling."

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Amber Hurdle

"I usually just have one cat. It is difficult, but I have my one cat that he'll travel with me if it's appropriate, if I'm not going overseas."

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Amber Hurdle

"Just to travel is rather boring, but to travel with a purpose is educational and exciting."

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"The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision."
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"That odd idea that one person can go to a foreign part and in this rather odd voice describe it to the folks back home doesn't make much sense in the post-colonial world."
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"I do believe that the genre reached its peak before the First World War."
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"Its highest point was The Worst Journey in the World. Then you see this decline, and this harking back, using the 19th-century form when we're not in the 19th century. That way of writing a book about the world out there - you just can't do it anymore."
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Robyn Davidson
"The genre has moved into this commercial aspect of itself, and ignored this extraordinarily rich literature that's filed everywhere else except under travel."
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