Travel’s Most Mysterious Gift
Salalah, Oman. Photo by Baxter Jackson
“The rhetorical disaster of proclaiming war on terror is now becoming clear. The world is full of terror, just as it is filled with beauty and kindness. It can never be exterminated, only borne.
Every traveler knows this – every traveler expects it – because an understanding of our world’s shifting ambiguities is travel’s most mysterious gift.”
-Tom Bissell
from Over There: How America Sees the Rest of the World, a collection of narrative essays published by Granta.
Related Posts
Tim Patterson
Tim Patterson is a longtime contributor and former contributing editor at the Matador Network.
More By This Author
- Escape to adventure: Denver (3 comments)
- Understanding the war in Kachin
- Notes on getting lost in the Lowells (2 comments)
view all → Tim Patterson
-
Shreya

