Justin Marozzi

How to tether your camel and other useful tips

Barnaby Rogerson’s collected quotations on travel, from Odysseus to Oscar Wilde, makes you want to head off immediately, destination unknown

Young camels tethered in the Gobi desert. [Getty Images]
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