Travelogue/memoir that begins 'The journey which this little book is to describe was very
agreeable and fortunate for me.After an uncouth beginning, I had the best of luck to the end.But we are all travellers in what John Bunyan calls the wilderness of this world - all, too, travellers with a donkey:and the best that we find in our travels is an honest friend.He is a fortunate voyager who finds many.We travel, indeed, to find them.They are the end and the reward of life.They keep us worthy of ourselves; and when we are alone, we
are only nearer to the absent.' |
