Travel is not just seeing the world but understanding it...
A Travel Guide to Connection
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About the Author - Jonathan Newman
Social anthropologist, researcher, author, and podcaster dedicated to uncovering the hidden human layers of our world.
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You are standing in a world woven with unseen stories - where every street corner is an unread page and every stranger’s face is uncharted terrain.
True adventure isn't measured in air miles; it is an act of radical curiosity. I wrote this book to turn your daily surroundings into uncharted territory and hand you the lens to adventure right where you stand.
Dr. Jonathan Newman, Social Anthropologist & Author of A Travel Guide to Connection
A daily meditation on the art of looking closer - and turning the ordinary world delightfully upside down.
On Objects:
"Without luggage, the traveller is someone else. Without the traveller, luggage is just a random bunch of things in a bag."
On Everyday Life:
"You are truly on the move once you begin to feel like a stranger in your own home."
On Destinations:
"Rather than ask 'Where would I like to go?', what happens when a traveller asks 'Where would I NOT like to go?' and sets off to that other place instead?"
On Perspective:
"The wise Homo sapien has achieved so much... yet ask a daffodil or a whale; they remain unimpressed.”
On Human Nature:
"We are all tightrope walkers walking along the thin line of the day with different bodies, different clothes, and different experiences of falling off."
On Locations:
"I can neither know myself without knowing the world, nor know the world without knowing myself. Existence is a shared experience bathed in formative histories"
Travel book for the genuinely curious
Stop asking where to go. Start rethinking how you see.
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REVIEWS
An anthropological sensibility is exactly what we need
in a time of disconnection and division
“Newman’s brilliant book is a fun, engaging invitation to see the world afresh. With clarity and wit, it shows how we can meeting difference with curiosity rather than judgment.”
This exceptional book fundamentally shifts how we experience the ordinary
“It takes us on a journey of connection with what we thought we knew. This changes everything. Few books so powerfully transform how we perceive the world around us. It is a must-read."
Curiosity can light the way and kindness guides our steps
"A reality check to wake the inner self, avoid the trap of the mundane, and recognise that we are all connected, from the smallest microbe to the largest animal. Thank you for this wonderful travel guide.”
The perfect antidote to painting by TripAdvisor reviews
“This enjoyable book has inspired me to go on adventures to unusual places, taking off-the-beaten-track to new levels. Reminds me of Iain Sinclair’s London Orbital.”
“Newman’s brilliant book is a fun, engaging invitation to see the world a fresh.With clarity and wit, it shows how an anthropological sensibility – meeting difference with curiosity rather than judgment – is exactly what we need in a time of disconnection and division.”
“Newman’s brilliant book is a fun, engaging invitation to see the world a fresh.With clarity and wit, it shows how an anthropological sensibility – meeting difference with curiosity rather than judgment – is exactly what we need in a time of disconnection and division.”
“Newman’s brilliant book is a fun, engaging invitation to see the world a fresh.With clarity and wit, it shows how an anthropological sensibility – meeting difference with curiosity rather than judgment – is exactly what we need in a time of disconnection and division.”
“Newman’s brilliant book is a fun, engaging invitation to see the world a fresh.With clarity and wit, it shows how an anthropological sensibility – meeting difference with curiosity rather than judgment – is exactly what we need in a time of disconnection and division.”
Once read, you will see the world differently and it will never leave you
“This book is brilliant: humorous, thought-provoking, sensitive and surprising. It makes you think differently and challenges prejudices you may not even have realised you held. It invites you to imagine how the dragonfly perceives the world, the messages a chair sends out and what it must be like to exist using only a sense of smell…”
