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Books

The Meaning of Travel by Emily Thomas

Stephen Leach discovers the meaning of travel without moving from his desk.

“The philosophy of travel isn’t a thing,” says Emily Thomas, “but it should be.” Having read The Meaning of Travel, I agree with her.

She points out that recently, travel books have come to be often intertwined with tales of a personal, often vaguely spiritual, quest for meaning. It might also be pointed out that, conversely, a story that is primarily a quest for meaning has sometimes been intertwined with the story of a physical journey – for example, Robert M. Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

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