-- Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880), French Novelist

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“A traveler without knowledge is a bird without wings.”

-- Sa’di, Persian poet, Gulistan, 1259

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“If you cannot understand a people’s language, you have only to look at what they eat to learn a great deal -- not just about their food, but also their way of life and culture.”

-- Reinhart Wolf, Japan: The Beauty of Food, 1987

-- John Ruskin (1819 - 1900), Modern Painters

-- Catullus, Roman poet (c. 87 - 54 BC)

-- John Hatt, The Tropical Traveller (1982)

-- Robert Allen, How to Survive the Age of Travel (1974)

-- Broughton Waddy and Ralph Townley, A Word or Two Before You Go (1980)

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

-- John 15:13

-- Mark Twain, Innocents Abroad

-- Karl Baedeker, Baedeker’s Paris and Its Environs (16th edition, 1907)

-- Robert and Nanthapa Cooper, Culture Shock! Thailand

-- Freya Stark

-- Joe Cummings, author of Lonely Planet's Thailand guide

-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead, 1973

-- Malcolm Boyd, American writer

-- Bill Bryson, Neither Here nor There, 1992

-- Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), French philosopher

-- Edith Wharton (1862-1937), American novelist

-- Nawal el Saadawi, Egyptian writer, My Travels Around the World, 1991

-- Michael Mewshaw, American novelist, Playing Away

-- William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830), English writer

-- Martin Buber (1878-1965), German philospher

-- T.S. Eliot, Rudyard Kipling

-- C.E. Montague, The Right Place

-- Félix Martí-Ibáñez, Journey Around Myself, 1966

-- Thurston Clarke, Equator (1988)

-- Dervla Murphy, Irish travel writer, Cameroon with Egbert, 1990

-- Simon Raven, British novelist, Travel: A Moral Primer, 1968

-- Beryl Markham (1902 - 1986), West with the Night

-- Mark Rudman, A Journey to Italy

-- Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773), English statesman

-- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Two Gentlemen of Verona

-- E.M. Forster (1879-1970), A Room with a View

-- Jan Myrdal, Swedish essayist, The Silk Road

-- Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), British novelist

-- Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, 1910

-- Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922), Remembrance of Things Past

-- Alan Watts, American philospher, On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

-- Caskie Stinnett, American writer, The Transcendental Tourist

-- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894), Across the Plains

-- James Michener, American novelist, 1956

-- Mary Roberts Rinehart, Through Glacier Park in 1915

-- Robert Byron, From Russia, Then Tibet

-- Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

—Samuel Rogers (1763 - 1855), English poet