Lord Cockburn

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    What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.
    George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    The travel writer seeks the world we have lost—the lost valleys of the imagination.
    —Alexander Cockburn (b. 1941)