Jan Morris — English Writer born on October 02, 1926,

Jan Morris, CBE, FRSL is a Welsh historian, author and travel writer. She is known particularly for the Pax Britannica trilogy, a history of the British Empire, and for portraits of cities, notably Oxford, Venice, Trieste, Hong Kong, and New York City... (wikipedia)

Travel, which was once either a necessity or an adventure, has become very largely a commodity, and from all sides we are persuaded into thinking that it is a social requirement, too.
Its smallness is not petty; on the contrary, it is profound.
Indians love to reduce the prosaic to the mystic.
To the stern student of affairs, Beirut is a phenomenon, beguiling perhaps, but quite, quite impossible.