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Most travel, and certainly the rewarding kind, involves depending on the kindness of strangers, putting yourself into the hands of people you don't know and trusting them with your life.
Most travel, and certainly the rewarding kind, involves depending on the kindness of strangers, putting yourself into the hands of people you don't know and trusting them with your life.
Approximate author period: c. 1941 AD · modern
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- Paul Theroux
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- Approximate author period: c. 1941 AD · modern
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