Body Quote by Christopher Hitchens

“From space I saw Earth, indescribably beautiful with the scars of national boundaries gone.”

— Muhammed Ahmed Faris

I surrendered all my privacy to write this book. It was so hard and so painful. I went through so much crazy stuff. But…

— Park Yeon-mi

To be transported into another world is my very favourite part of reading.

— Ayobami Adebayo

It is my object, in the following work, to travel over ground which has as yet been little explored and to make my reader…

— Georges Cuvier

I thought that, with so much current attention focused on the topic of North Korea, I might share what I think are three books…

— Adam Johnson

In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.

— Anna Quindlen

“This is not the sort of thing that shows up in satellite photographs. Whether in CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, or in the East…

— Barbara Demick

“Everybody has a geography that can be used for change that is why we travel to far off places. Whether we know it or…

— Joan Halifax

“Now when I was a little chap I had a passion for maps. I would look for hours at South America, or Africa, or…

— Joseph Conrad

“Nearly everywhere I've been, popular wisdom has it that the location of humanity's original planet is unknown, mysterious. In fact it isn't, as anyone…

— Ann Leckie

The tourist travels in his own atmosphere like a snail in his shell and stands, as it were, on his own perambulating doorstep to…

— Freya Stark

“The two of you stood there, side by side, and the tectonic plates of your lives began to shift and resettle, continents separating.”

— Dan Chaon