There is a saying, if any stranger enquire of the first met of Maan, were it even a child, “Who is here the sheykh?” he would answer him “I am he.

By Charles Montagu Doughty

The best thing about flying first class....was that you could be as nutty as a fruitcake and were still treated like the Queen of Sheba.

By Sarah-Kate Lynch

Be as intellectual as you like about it, but India is brilliantly mad. And if you want to love it, you have to hate it first.

By Simon Dring

The man who seeks to educate himself must first read and then travel in order to correct what he has learned.

By Casanova

One of the great joys of traveling through Italy is discovering firsthand that it is, indeed, a dream destination.

By Debra Levinson

As well as writing, 2004 saw my first attempt at wine making: the elixir of life. Unfortunately, my effort tasted more like the elixir of death.

By Craig Briggs

Faxian and Xuanzang might have been the first Chinese to travel to India, but sometimes it felt like I was the first.

By Hong Mei 洪梅

We all have a book in us. The first step is recognising this. Writing it is a whole new journey.

By Kathryn Joyce

By the first mouthful I knew that I was going to get drunk that night. The drink tasted too good not to.

By S.A. Tawks

You'll never know the kind of person you could be until you take that first step, all alone, into the great unknown. Very few take the step.

By Hannah Harding

But our back is to legends and we are coming home. I suppose this is the first taste of it.'

By J.R.R. Tolkien

First stop: Hope. I like the sound of that.

By Darren Groth

The map? I will first make it.

By Patrick White

As anyone who's ever taken an Ethiopian bus knows, there is an unwritten rule that the windows must remain firmly closed.

By Tahir Shah

In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent.

By Joseph Conrad
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