Blind Date, and When Paul Met Jonathan: An Introduction to the Concept of Perspective
1982 was a particularly turbulent year in the United Kingdom. The national unemployment rate was around 11%, moving upwards, and the country went to war with Argentina over the South American country’s invasion of the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas). In that same year, two ‘heavyweight’ travel writers, Paul Theroux and Jonathan Raban, were travelling around Britain, gauging the domestic zeitgeist and writing (their...