“A journey, I reflected, is of no merit unless it has tested you.”

“On a hard jungle journey nothing is so important as having a team you can trust.”

“I believe that Marrakech ought to be earned as a destination. The journey is the preparation for the experience. Reaching it too fast derides it, makes it a little less easy to understand.”

“When I am about to embark on a difficult journey, I comfort myself by reading the accounts of the great nineteenth-century travellers, men like Stanley, Burton, Speke, Burckhardt and Barth.”

“Most journeys have a clear beginning, but on some the ending is less well-defined. The question is, at what point do you bite your lip and head for home?”

“A man who embarks on a journey must know when to end it.”

“Previous journeys had taught me the danger of taking too much stuff.”