. "He alerts us to his belief that Norman Douglas had ???fathered forth the sensibility of English travel writing??? naming such figures as Robert Byron, Peter Fleming, Norman Lewis, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Jan Morris, Bruce Chatwin, Colin Thubron and Pico Iyer as his progeny.Bright-heartedness, fanatical curiosity, and flying wit are their shared talismans ??? along with willingness to be a ???slave o" . . . . . . . . . .