I WANTED TO TRAVEL By John Gibbons Since his first
tramp to Lourdes, at the age of forty-six, Mr. Gibbons has been constantly on the move, and a stream of travel books has flowed from his pen. In fact in the last eight years he has visited and written about twenty- eight foreign countries, and has never lost the original freshness of outlook that gave distinction to his first book. In I Wanted to Travel (Robert Hale, I2S. 6d.) he tells us how it all happened, and his attitude to travel and writing is as shockingly simple as his attitude to the wonders of the world. " There has only been one real book of mine, Tramp- ing to Lourdes . . . the others were only a nuisance, the annoying price which had to be paid for their own travel." That may be true, and the present book' is a bit of a hash-up. But it is an amusing hash-up and written with a truculent and obviously sincere refusal to be im- pressed by the impressive that marks all his books.
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