Travel
Sense there's more to travel than meets the eye?
A Travel Guide to Connection is your passport to the hidden layers and human stories in every destination – including your own home. Social anthropologist Dr. Jonathan Newman shares twelve key pathways to connect with others and gain a deeper understanding of different points of view.
Why do tourists visit ancient cities?
Are military arms fairs better holiday destinations?
What is the relationship between a traveller and their luggage?
Can dogs teach humans to smell the world?
Who drinks in ‘bad’ pubs?
This unique guidebook suggests hundreds of locations rarely revealed by traditional travel books and offers over two hundred insightful questions to transform your conversations. Each chapter provides practical steps to turn your next trip into an adventure of profound discovery. Embrace a form of travel that transforms your understanding of the world and your place within it.
For life’s explorers, this is the perfect ticket.
“Newman’s brilliant book is a fun, engaging invitation to see the world afresh. With clarity and wit, it shows how an anthropological sensibility – meeting difference with curiosity rather than judgment – is exactly what we need in a time of disconnection and division.”
– Gwen Burnyeat, University of Edinburgh
“This exceptional book fundamentally shifts how we experience the ordinary. It takes us on a journey of connection with what we thought we knew. This changes everything. Few books so powerfully transform how we perceive the world around us. It is a must read.”
– Steffi Bednarek, Centre for Climate Psychology
RRP £7.99
Here's what readers have to say about this book....
Dr Newman's call to come to our full range of senses to avoid the trap of placing all our belongings, luggage along the journey, memories, smells in the treasure chest of the "normal" and "mundane". This book is a reality check to our inner self to wake up to look around us and identify what made us who we are, the struggle to leave those marvellous places we have fallen in love with to recognise that "we are all connected, from the smallest microbe to the largest animal, and our actions have consequenses for everyone" (Route Eight: Other Bodies, Other Paths). Moreover, one of the most meaningful messages the author leaves us with is that "Each of us walks our own path; when we get lost, curiosity can light the way and kindness guides our steps". Thank you Dr. Newman for this wonderful travel guide!
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