Along the Road
How Jesus Used Geography to Tell God's Story

A mixed bag of Huxleyan essays, some (but not all) on the subject of travel. The travel pieces are good when he's not trying to impress you with his knowledge of artistic esoterica - a recurrent theme, I'm sorry to say. The non-travel essays are of even poorer quality for the most part, opinionated e......more

Molt interessant, tot i que la part dedicada estrictament als viatges és més aviat curta. Recomanable si us interessa la crítica al turisme als anys 20 (fa pensar en "Viatges" de Zweig). Recomanable també si sou italòfils i us agrada l'art renaixentista (cosa que sol anar lligada); en aquest cas, mi......more

Though there are some gems in it and some really interesting stories as you'd expect from Huxley, some bits are rather dull. The most exciting bits to me were the ones talking about the traveller person, and some of the travel stories that were also vivid. It's an easy and overall enjoyable read so......more

Boy if this was my introduction to Huxley, I'd never read anything else by him. He comes across as a cantakerous, opinionated, racist snob. Any number of his essays in this book are downright silly. He's a Baliol man, don't you know, an Old Etonian who complains about "working for the enrichment of......more

The early chapters of this book of essays that are specifically about travelers and travel in the 1920s are the most interesting to me. Some pieces on specific locations are interesting, but his ideas on art and music are not very supportable. He can sound callow and in fact was only about 30 years......more