The Utne Reader included him alongside Noam Chomsky and Václav Havel as “one of 100 visionaries worldwide who could change your life.” Iyer has been embraced by both spiritual seekers and startup entrepreneurs as a beacon of wisdom in a frenetic world. “Arguably the world’s greatest living travel writer,” according to Outside magazine, he is the author of two novels and over a dozen works of nonfiction, including such enduring favorites as The Lady and the Monk and The Global Soul. With his keen-eyed observations, bestselling writer Pico Iyer is a chronicler of the desire to seek new frontiers and view familiar terrain through fresh eyes. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again-to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.”
We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. “We travel, initially, to lose ourselves and we travel, next, to find ourselves.