A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the ground, sees something and spends quite a lot of time doing it, and has a hard... →
Paul Theroux
I think people read travel books either because they intend to take that trip, or because they would never take that trip. In a sense, as a writer... →
The job of the travel writer is to go far and wide, to make voluminous notes, to tell the truth.
The appeal of travel books is also the sense that you are different, an outsider, almost like the Robinson Crusoe or Christopher Columbus notion of... →
One of the things the 'Tao of Travel' shows is how unforthcoming most travel writers are, how most travelers are. They don't tell you who... →
The idea of traveling in Africa for me is based on going by road or train or bus or whatever and crossing borders. You can't travel easily or at... →
I've still got a small fitness and conditioning business where I travel round the world doing stuff for individuals and corporations, mainly... →
Daley Thompson
My goal when I started out was to get to the point where I could tour a lot and make a living, which means getting paid enough to hire my own band... →
Teddy Thompson
'Closed timelike curve' is the jargon for time travel. It means you go out, come back and meet yourself in the past.
Kip Thorne
I became interested in this question of whether you can build wormholes for interstellar travel. I realized that if you had a wormhole, the theory of... →