Excerpt from An English Holiday With Car and Camera The reasons why people travel are many and various; some travel for their health, a few bold spirits set forth in search of adventure in little explored lands; others roam therein after big game, still others wander far afield simply because they are naturally restless, and find their only rest in movement. Sundry unenterprising folk travel merely because their friends do; others go abroad, perchance, to escape from domestic worries or to find distraction from business cares. Stevenson has it that we travel to find friends, and he is a fortunate voyager who finds many. For myself I frankly confess that I travel for none of these things, but purely for pleasure, and, like the famous Dr. Syntax, in search of the picturesque. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.