There is something about going somewhere that no longer exists
that appeals to Roger Gale. That's why, for much of his adult
life, he cruised the world's antiquarian bookstores, buying, say,
accounts of 19th-century Ceylon, old maps of London, a
17th-century mariners' guide to Africa, and archaic travel books
describing Timbuktu or Tibet or Tierra del Fuego. Once at home,
he'd read his new acquisitions and study their illustrations, and
instantly be transported into the past.
