Exploration

  Extract No. 03 Page No. 68 / 69 [Line, “By now…………………from home”] Read the extract and do all the  activities that follow: By now all of us have heard (too often) the old  Proust   line about how the real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new places but in seeing with new eyes. Yet one of the subtler  beauties of travel is that it enables you to bring new eyes to the people you encounter. Thus even as holidays help you appreciate your own home more not least by seeing it through a distant admirer’s eyes they help you bring newly appreciative-distant-eyes to the places you visit. You can teach them what they have to celebrate as much as you celebrate what they have to teach. This, I think, is how tourism, which so obviously destroys cultures, can also resuscitate   or revive them, how it has created new “traditional” dances in Bali, and caused craftsmen in India to pay new attention to their works.        Thus tra...