Along the Road

Along the Road or Notes And Essays Of A Tourist, by Aldous Huxley covers the author's traveling experiences of his time in Europe, offering a glimpse into travel in the 1920s.<br/><br/>In this book Aldous Huxley focuses on what it means to be an authentic, real traveler, opposing him to the typical tourist which pretends to enjoy himself.<br/><br/>Huxley writes:<br/><br/>"The fact is that very few travellers really like travelling. If they go to the trouble and expense of travelling, it is not so much from curiosity, for fun, or because they like to see things beautiful and strange, as out of a kind of snobbery. People travel for the same reason as they collect works of art; because the best people do it."<br/><br/>"...science has "explained" nothing; ...the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness....”<br/>This edition of Along the Road is a facsimile of the original book. Not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software for better lisibility. Originally published in 1925