Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from When We Were Strolling Players in the East
TO travel far and wide - out of the beaten paths, and to enjoy it, is to have a great career. I know no other impersonal delight that is so endless as the delight of learning new places. To see new ?ora, a new type of people having new customs, and then to realise that it is Damascus or Kabul, Calcutta or Canton, - a place which has been to you all your life a meaningless dot on a map, but is now - and for ever will be to you - a vivid, vital reality, - that is an exquisite pleasure, a twofold pleasure, for while it fires your intellect, it feeds your artistic sense, your love of the picturesque.
I take it for granted that you have a love of the picturesque. If I am wrong, you would better close my little book, and try to change it for another. For you will think me a bit mad, and we shan't get on together at all.
I love the East - genuinely and intensely - I love every inch of it. There are occasional bits of the landscape that are uninteresting, but the people are always charming. They are often lovable. They are invariably quaint and interesting.
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