Word: travel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Will Travel and Study...
Tibor Koeves (pronounced Kovesh), a Hungarian journalist who writes in English, has been traveling most of the past 15 years. His Timetable for Tramps, purporting to be the first "textbook" on its subject, is a shrewdly organized, gracefully written set of casual essays on travel as a disease, an art, a religion. Blurred at times by a little too much literary charm, as a textbook it is suggestive rather than definitive. These faults aside, it is one of the more perceptive and engaging of "travel books...
Observing in himself and in hundreds of fellow travelers the same symptoms-"rapid pulse . . . labored breathing, dilated pupils, and a euphoristic tingling"-which characterize "all other major passions, such as love, greed, poetry, and the quintessence of them all, religion," Koeves dignifies travel as a "virus," as "a form of poetry whose raw material is life," as "an instinct second only to that of the passion of love. . . . Cities are more docile mistresses than women. Like women, they require time and money; but of the two they are by far the less demanding and more generous...
...live there. Well aware that, thanks to war, most of what he tells of will never be the same again, Koeves subtitles his volume "A European Testament." In a modest and genuine way, it is. It is also what it set out to be: a good book about travel, of which the chief regret is, that with so sharp a focus drawn on the theory of travel, the lens is trained so little on its practice...
...would be naive to imagine that Mr. Siepmann's visit is purely academic. Obviously, he will travel about the country, but ton-holing the leading radio executives, dining and wining them, discussing -- in an off-hand manner, of course -- the unfortunate war into which Britain has been dragged. He will reminisce on the subject of cricket, paint a picture of the jolly old hills of England, and dwell upon the good fellowship which blesses Anglo-American relations. If he is adroit at the art--and obviously he is adroit, or Britain would never have let such a valuable...