THE WINGED LIFE: “On Wanderlust”
Wanderlust: "a strong or unconquerable longing for or impulse towards wandering"
Years back, while I was still teaching journalism and essay writing at the university, I chanced upon Salon.com's “Wanderlust,” a collection of wonderful, elegant prose dedicated to "putting the romance and the passion — the ‘unconquerable longing’ — back into travel writing," as editor Don George wrote in the introduction. Ever since then, I was hooked and would often scour for travel articles written by Pico Iyer, Bruce Chatwin, Isabel Allende, and a few others whose writing Salon.com had described as having that "combined sense of courage, passion and wonder."
