Happy birthday Anthony Trollope
Born on this day in London in 1815.
The prolific novelist also wrote travel books, one of which inspired Paul Theroux to write one of the wisest things I've ever read about the genre.
In an essay in Granta magazine in 1989, Theroux quoted a passage from Trollope's The West Indies and the Spanish Main and at the end of it wrote: "Something human had happened, and Trollope recorded it: that, it seemed to me, was the essence of good travel writing."
