title: The Way of the Wanderer: Discover Your True Self Through Travel (Travelers' Tales Footsteps (Paperback))
author:  David Yeadon 
description: Award-winning author and illustrator Yeadon (Lost Worlds: Exploring the World's Remote Paces) is a world wanderer who has made a career out of writing about backroads and hidden places. Here he writes of the transformation and inner growth brought about by such travel: "To know the world still remains a thing of mystery, silence and secrets this I find one of the greatest joys of all." Yeadon ceaselessly looks for the unknown, less-traveled places and the extraordinary people he encounters along the way, like the "hermit" home he visits on an island off the coast of Maine. His explorations take him all over the world, but he finds the undiscovered even in his native England. His extraordinary line drawings heighten the effect of his lyrical, meditative essays. A treat for the armchair traveler; recommended for all public libraries. Ravi Shenoy, Naperville P.L., IL <br />Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  # Was it an Illusion? A Parson's Story
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Amelia B. Edwards
  
  
  This page copyright © 2002 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
  The facts which I am about to relate happened to myself some
  
  
  sixteen or eighteen years ago, at which time I served Her Majesty as
  
  
  an Inspector of Schools. Now, the Provincial Inspector is perpetually
  
  
  on the move; and I was still young enough to enjoy a life of constant
  
  
  travelling.
  
  
  There are, indeed, many less agreeable ways in which an unbeneficed
  
  
  parson may contrive to scorn delights and live laborious days. In
  
  
  remote places where strangers are scarce, his annual visit is an
  
  
  important event; and though at the close of a long day's work he would
  
  
  sometimes prefer the quiet of a country inn, he generally finds
  
  
  himself the destined guest of the rector or the squire. It rests with
  
  
  himself to turn these opportunities to account. If he makes himself
  
  
  pleasant, he forms agreeable fri