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“The traveller must be born again on the road, and earn a passport from the elements, the principal powers that be for him.”
- Date
- 1849
Meaning of “The traveller must be born again on the…”
Thoreau presents serious travel as a demanding experience that changes the traveller through exposure, effort and direct encounter with conditions beyond ordinary comfort.
Where does it come from?
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, Thursday, Project Gutenberg #4232. The sentence follows Thoreau’s claim that sincere travelling is no pastime and precedes his description of weariness, sore feet and experience acquired on the road; it is nineteenth-century travel philosophy rather than practical safety advice.
