Varieties of Travel - History Today Author:Alan Hodge More than the desire to take a holiday in an unfamiliar place, travel is for Hodge the urge to enrich one's mind and to pass on to one's contemporaries imaginative impressions and reminiscences. This demonstrates a variety of such impressions ranging from an account of Europe under Napoleon to the experiences of British travellers in America bef... more »ore 1940. Remote corners of the world are also described.« less