“…his mode of pursuit was that of a wandering traveller: picking up languages, making maps and ever ready to leave the highway of his central narrative in order to explore picturesque or dangerous byways, before returning to the road ahead—which explains, no doubt, why the idea of the ‘Road’ is one that runs, twisting and turning, through so much of his…
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