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On the Road Again: Introduction
Ian Jack
‘Switzerland absolutely fulfils our idea of the picturesque’
We Went to Saigon
Tia Wallman
‘I thought that this must be the sort of plane that crashes. What were a few more dead, travelling to the city of the dead?’
Cary Grant’s Suit
Todd McEwen
‘North by Northwest isn't a film about what happens to Cary Grant, it's about what happens to his suit.’
Trenitalia
Tim Parks
‘It was explained to me that in Italy a formality is a sort of dormant volcano.’
Lavande
Ann Beattie
‘It seemed impossible, but probably everyone marries thinking such a thing impossible.’
We Have No Minorities
George Bowater
‘The state can burn houses but it can't stop the rain, can't round up all the sheep. It isn't an easy place to control.’
The End of Travel
James Hamilton-Paterson
‘The more we flock to view the disappearing glaciers, the faster they will vanish.’
Introduction: God’s Own Countries
Ian Jack
‘The idea of God as creator and custodian died, and many words in the old vocabulary were robbed of their potency.’
A Prisoner of the Holy War
Wendell Steavenson
‘Thayr held out. He would not betray his country, he would not betray his leader.’
