It is an astonishing contrast to be going at fifteen miles a day one day and at fifteen hundred the next. I had so got into the habit of moving at the same rate as people did a thousand years ago, with the camels, that now I found it difficult to realize I was every day flying over new countries inhabited by different races.
E. Maillart, Forbidden journey (1935), 310
Tuesday 25 June 2024
It is an astonishing contrast to be going at fifteen miles a day one day and at fifteen hundred the next
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