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“It is always a taut moment in a foreign country waiting to see if your English-speaking guide speaks English.”

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Book:But I Wouldn't Have Missed it for the World!: The Pleasures and Perils of an Unseasoned Traveler

Source: But I Wouldn't Have Missed it for the World!: The Pleasures and Perils of an Unseasoned Traveler

“A guide book is addressed to those who plan to follow the traveler, doing what he has done, but more selectively. A travel book, in its purest, is addressed to those who do not plan to follow the traveler at all, but who require the exotic or comic anomalies, wonders and scandals of the literary form romance which their own place or time cannot entirely supply.”

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Book:Abroad: British Literary Traveling between the Wars

Source: Abroad: British Literary Traveling between the Wars

“The American arrives in Paris with a few French phrases he has culled from a conversational guide or picked up from a friend who owns a beret.”

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Author:Fred Allen

“Modern tourist guides have helped raised tourist expectations. And they have provided the natives- from Kaiser Wilhelm down to the villagers of Chichacestenango - with a detailed and itemized list of what is expected of them and when. These are the up-to-date scripts for actors on the tourists' stage.”

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Author:Daniel J. Boorstin

“There are only two rules. One is E. M. Forster's guide to Alexandria; the best way to know Alexandria is to wander aimlessly. The second is from the Psalms; grin like a dog and run about through the city.”

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Author:Jan Morris

“Hey Lord, would ya look out for her tonight, and make sure that all her dreams are sweet? Said now, would ya guide her on the roads, and make them softer for her feet? Hey Lord, would ya look out for her tonight, and make sure that she's gonna be alright, until she's home and here with me.”

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Author:Billy Joel

“To speak of this subject you must... explain the nature of the resistance of the air, in the second the anatomy of the bird and its wings, in the third the method of working the wings in their various movements, in the fourth the power of the wings and the tail when the wings are not being moved and when the wind is favourable to serve as guide in various movements.”

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Book:The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci