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Travelers Learn Not Just Foreign Customs And Curious Cuisines And Unfamiliar Beliefs And Novel Forms Of Government. They Learn, If They Are Lucky, Humility.

The Worst Thing About War Was The Sitting Around And Wondering What You Were Doing Morally.

If We Do Not Redefine Manhood, War Is Inevitable.

Today The Somme Is A Peaceful But Sullen Place, Unforgetting And Unforgiving. ... To Wander Now Over The Fields Destined To Extrude Their Rusty Metal Fragments For Centuries Is To Appreciate In The Most Intimate Way The Permanent Reverberations Of July, 1916. When The Air Is Damp You Can Smell Rusted Iron Everywhere, Even Though You See Only Wheat And Barley.

And The Ideal Travel Writer Is Consumed Not Just With A Will To Know. He Is Also Moved By A Powerful Will To Teach.