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TEXT: PATRICIA PERKINS PHOTOGRAPHY: FROM PAUL BOWLES PHOTOGRAPHS, SCALO PUBLISHERS
Paul Bowles Requiem for the Quintessential Traveler
Paul Bowles is dead. On the road, he'd braved typhoid and jaundice, bad food and bizarre friends. Nothing stopped him, not at first. He traveled the world for forty years: Europe, North Africa, India and Ceylon, Central and South America, Hong Kong, Thailand and Japan. In the end, he died in Morocco, the place he
couldn't-wouldn't-call home. Travelers don't have homes. He once wrote in his best~selling novel, The Sheltering Sky: "Whereas the tourist generally hurries back home at the end of a few weeks or months, the traveler, belonging no more to one place than to the next, moves slowly, over periods of years, from one part of the earth to another ... "
