Off the beaten track

A cycling holiday is necessarily one of limited baggage, but this was not the only reason why I took Catullus in my pocket to Rotorua. I enjoy reading a well-known book in new surroundings. I once read the Greek Gospel of Saint John on the Christchurch-Dunedin Express and filled its simple pages, like a medieval manuscript, with pictures of white beach and headland, smooth plains of wheat and snow-capped hills, from that incomparable stretch of railway that runs down the coast of New Zealand's South Island. So did the beauty of the North Island lakeland illuminate a well-thumbed Catullus. How wrong to read our poets always in the study! We have lost them when they remind us only of grammar and philology, German tomes and prosody. We discover them anew when we can fill their lines with new associations and colour them with a colour sometimes all our own. With my eyes full of scenes from a day's wandering, guideless and off the beaten track, where Maori legends cluster thick about lakes, hot pools, and dark green woods, I read Catullus.

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Wandering off the Beaten Track

AAAS Articles DO Group ◽

10.1126/article.65903 ◽

2021 ◽

Keyword(s):

Beaten Track

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Per rotte poco battute. 40 anni di avventure educative in giro per il mondo

TERRITORIO ◽

10.3280/tr2012-063001 ◽

2012 ◽

pp. 7-15

Author(s):

Paolo Ceccarelli

Keyword(s):

Young People ◽

Ivory Tower ◽

Population Groups ◽

Beaten Track ◽

Working Together

The author looks back over the stages and subjects of long years of teaching and organisation in numerous international workshops on planning, bringing young people to address emerging problems not covered by the rulebook and encouraging them to get off the beaten track. It is a commitment conducted in the conviction that there is no sense in remaining closed within the ivory tower and that the search for new answers to old and new problems does not produce any serious results if it is conducted by introspective academics or fashionable professionals. We need to know ourselves better and influence each other reciprocally, with modesty and perseverance, working together on population groups who have specific problems to solve.

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Alex Guerrero, Off The Beaten Track

The Philosophers Magazine ◽

10.5840/tpm20219454 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 6-13

Author(s):

Jean Kazez ◽

Alex Guerrero ◽

Keyword(s):

Beaten Track

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Religious Tourism in Africa's Global South

Advances in Hospitality, Tourism, and the Services Industry - Global Development of Religious Tourism ◽

10.4018/978-1-7998-5792-1.ch017 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 283-296

Author(s):

Unathi Sonwabile Henama ◽

Lwazi Apleni

Keyword(s):

Economic Benefit ◽

Effective Means ◽

Cost Effective ◽

Sub Saharan Africa ◽

Economic Activities ◽

International Tourist ◽

African Spirituality ◽

Religious Tourism ◽

Beaten Track ◽

Sub Saharan

International tourist arrivals are projected to surpass 1.8 billion by 2030 on the back of rapid growth in emerging tourism economies. Tourism has emerged as an economic messiah for a plethora of countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. It has emerged as a cost-effective means by which countries can diversify their economies, especially countries with low economies that depend on agricultural products to diversify their economies. Religious tourism can contribute to deeper economic benefit for a destination. The synthesis of literature adds to the paucity of academic gaze on religious tourism in Southern Africa. The synthesis takes the reader on a religious tourism journey that includes African spirituality, Pentecostal Christianity, and the interface between Africans spirituality and Christianity. These areas are neglected in the academic gaze and are outside the tourism beaten track, and these forms of religious tourism bring in much needed economic activities for areas on the tourism fringe.

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