There are no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign.

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There are no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign.

Robert Louis Stevenson

1883

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Travel

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Autobiography and memoir Travel writing

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1883

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Robert Louis Stevenson

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. The Silverado Squatters. London: Chatto & Windus, 1883, pt. 2, ch. 3.

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There are no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign. — Robert Louis Stevenson

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