![]() He introduced me to the world of travel when I was eighteen.ĭad had done the same for my two elder sisters. I’m also very thankful to my father for giving me the most wonderful present I’ve ever received. There were bookshelves, with the built-in one that lined a wall of the dining room containing works ranging from Kipling to Karl Marx, from Dostoyevsky to Benjamin Franklin. There was a piano, and my two sisters and I had lessons. Reproductions of famous paintings hung on the walls. I have many reasons to feel grateful to my parents. I spent my childhood in a tiny town in the northwest corner of Indiana with a population of 500. I have been asked to write about how travel has affected my own writing. ![]() ![]() Of course, life itself is a journey as we sojourn from birth to the ‘undiscovered country from whose bourne no traveler returns’. It was only gradually that I came to understand the wisdom of Eliot’s observation. ![]() It was one way of connecting with his wife, whom I count as one of my favorite writers. ![]() I first encountered this quotation by TS Eliot as the title of Leonard Woolf’s autobiography. ![]()
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