Excerpt from Wanderings a Book of Travel and Reminiscence<br><br>But can such a book be written and such a spectre laid? I doubt it. Words are the cloak of an immemorial blindness. They have put a seal upon our eyes in the restless subtlety of the lying tongue. Just as to conquer intellectualism you require intellect, so to discover the new road, that, leading to more than India, leads to home, you must traverse the Old.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.