nomadic youth.

Sitting on the edge of a cliff in Tiger Leaping Gorge, Yunnan Province

"Last night I made a list (for myself) of the seven cardinal virtues of a traveller:

1. To admit standards that are not one's own standards and discriminate the values that are not one's own values
2.To know how to use stupid men and inadequate tools with equanimity.
3. To be able to dissociate oneself from one's bodily sensations.
4. To be able to take rest and nourishment as and when they come.
5. To love not only nature but human nature also.
6. To have an unpreoccupied, observant, and uncensorious mind--in other words, to be unselfish.
7. To be as calmly good-tempered at the end of the day as at the beginning.

I should like to see Gertrude try to conform to one of them!"

--A letter Freya Stark wrote to her mother, January 12, 1938