Falling Off the Map: Some Lonely Places of the World Quotes

Families are so important here," I said. She looked surprised. "They are not everywhere?

Falling Off the Map: Some Lonely Places of the World

Lonely Places, then are the places that are not on international wavelengths, do not know how to carry themselves, are lost when it comes to visitors. They are shy, defensive, curious places; places that do not know how they are supposed to behave.

Falling Off the Map: Some Lonely Places of the World

You wind back the clock several decades when you visit a Lonely Place; and when you touch down, you half expect a cabin attendant to announce, "We have now landed in Lonely Place's Down-at-Heels Airport, where the local time is 1943 and the temperatu...

Falling Off the Map: Some Lonely Places of the World

Everyone is a Wordsworth in certain moods, and every traveler seeks out places that every traveler has missed.

Falling Off the Map: Some Lonely Places of the World