Adventure is allowing the unexpected to happen to you. Exploration is experiencing what you have not experienced before. How can there be any adventure, any exploration, if you let somebody else - above all, a travel bureau - arrange everything before-hand?

Early life
Aldington was born in Portsmouth the son of a solicitor and educated at Dover College and for a year at the University of London. Opening with a letter to the playwright Halcott Glover the book takes a variable but generally satirical cynical and critical posture and belabours Victorian and Edwardian cant. The Religion of Beauty: Selections from the Aesthetes (1950) anthology editor
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Richard Aldington (8 July 1892 – 27 July 1962) born Edward Godfree Aldington was an English writer and poet. Aldington was best known for his World War I poetry the 1929 novel Death of a Hero and the controversy arising from his 1955 Lawrence of Arabia: A Biographical Inquiry.