Whether it be tracing the steps of Marguerite Duras in Saigon, doing your best impression of Thesiger in the Empty Quarters of Oman or staying in the same hotels and travelling on the same railway (which he'd later famously bombed) as Lawrence of Arabia, travel lores are haunted by larger-than-life personalities who come to embody a particular destination.

Reason, perhaps, why you might find yourself staying at the Karen Blixen Camp or Elsa's (the lioness of Born Free fame) Kopje in Kenya or finding yourself going through the exact same motions, as, say, Livingstone as he contemplated his next adventure from the staging grounds of Zanzibar or simply, sending a 'Gone To Patagonia' note to your employers a la Chatwin!