Foreword | September 01, 1991
Foreword
Speer Morgan
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Many of the contributors to this issure are travellers. Their journeys may take them a modest distance or a long way, to destinations exotic or commonplace, desirable or less than desirable. Some of their journeys are not taken entirely by choice. All of them, though, are full of discoveries.
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