Cena: |
Stanje: | Polovan bez oštećenja |
Garancija: | Ne |
Isporuka: | Pošta CC paket (Pošta) Post Express |
Plaćanje: | Tekući račun (pre slanja) |
Grad: |
Novi Sad, Novi Sad |
Godina izdanja: Ostalo
ISBN: Ostalo
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani
U dobrom stanju
Postcards from the Observer 1976-83.
`There is a bad kind of travel writer who complains that the airport he leaves from herds him like a sheep, that the airliner he travels on feeds and lulls him like a veal calf, and that the airport he arrives at herds him like a sheep all over again, with the additional insult of somehow concealing all the allegedly exotic wonders that would have been revealed to him had he been allowed to make landfall by sampan or on the back of a camel.
To complain that modern travel has become a cliché is a cliché in itself. It is also an especially conceited brand of romanticism, by which you imagine yourself in the curled shoes and flowing robes of Sir Richard Burton or T. E. Lawrence. Such adventures were already beyond recapture when they were first heard about, since new ground can be broken only once. Anyway, in this as in any other field, reality should be romance enough. I like airports and airliners. Nor is this a case of frankly admitting to myself, as with my fond feelings for television, an enthusiasm that was always there but masked by intellectual snobbery. There was never any hope of generating enough intellectual snobbery to cover up my keenness for the airways.`
From the Introduction