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Change Your Life Through Travel

“The Travelers’ Tales series is altogether remarkable.” —Jan Morris

Travel brings extraordinary gifts that help you break through the crust of old patterns and reawaken to the joys, mysteries, and miracles of everyday life. Whether you’re gaining a new understanding of a foreign culture or having an epiphany that opens new inner worlds, travel is a catalyst for living a richer, more loving life. The stories in The Gift of Travel reflect the simple yet profound gifts travelers have received from people and places around the world. These stories, from all over the world, reveal in simple and profound ways that travel is one of the best teachers anyone can have in life. As one travel writer observes, "Travel messes everything up," and does so in countless wonderful and alarming ways, rearranging the voyager's psychic and emotional furniture. One rarely returns from a trip unchanged, a point that is not lost on the authors of these wonderful true tales of life on the road.

  • Learn to speak Thai with an unforgettable language teacher in Bangkok
  • Save a child’s life, and yourself, on a train in Barcelona
  • Immerse yourself in the soul-wrenching music of street musicians in Brazil
  • Surrender to a whole new life in the Canary Islands
  • Enjoy the sweetest waltz you’ll ever have in rural China
  • Watch preconceptions crumble like sand castles in the Sinai Desert
  • Become enlightened, Mexican style, when your bus breaks down in the Yucatan
  • Discover that you can go home again in a tailor’s shop in Hong Kong…and much more.


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