Sometimes journeys begin long before their first step is taken

- Colin Thubron

Sometimes a journey arises out of hope and instinct, the heady conviction, as your finger travels along the map: Yes, here and here ... and here. The…

- Colin Thubron

A nation is bound not only by the real past, but the stories it tells itself: by what it remembers, and what it forgets.

- Colin Thubron

Once, at the dreaming dawn of history -- before the world was categorized and regulated by mortal minds, before solid boundaries formed between the m…

- Colin Thubron

The attributes you need to be a travel writer are somewhat contradictory. For travel you need to be tough and resilient and to write you must be sen…

- Colin Thubron