Reading, The Original “Slow Travel”: A Curated List for Escapism 

Cut off from the easy ways of travel (a few taps on your device and you’ve just bought yourself a ticket to that country across the globe) and socially isolated from places we had planned to travel to either this Spring, Summer or even this year, it has never been a more fitting time to return to the original form of slow travel: reading. Long before travel became affordable and accessible, people were reading their way to the rice fields of India, the rainforests of South America, and the tiny archipelago dotting the Mediterranean. It was the way to escape the doldrum of daily life, if you had no disposable income to afford that train or plane ticket.