Excerpt from The Bolivian Andes: A Record of Climbing Exploration in the Cordillera Real in the Years 1898 and 1900 Is over and over again to find that what was once precious is become indifferent. Each new experience is enjoyed at the expense of its predecessor, each new interest supplants the one that went before. The travel ler, especially the exploring traveller, is perhaps more inevitably conscious of this succession of interests than are men of any other category, for to him each new point of attraction becomes ...
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Excerpt from The Bolivian Andes: A Record of Climbing Exploration in the Cordillera Real in the Years 1898 and 1900 Is over and over again to find that what was once precious is become indifferent. Each new experience is enjoyed at the expense of its predecessor, each new interest supplants the one that went before. The travel ler, especially the exploring traveller, is perhaps more inevitably conscious of this succession of interests than are men of any other category, for to him each new point of attraction becomes physically Visible ahead as the old one fades away behind or dips below the horizon. Each goal attained becomes a mere mile-stone of the way. Also, when a journey is ended, and memory takes the place of sight, the mind no longer trudges on from successive scene to scene, but, isolating this or that Vision of paramount beauty or interest, dwells. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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