“There are no national frontiers to learning.”
         - Japanese proverb

One of the most perfect book titles I can think of is ‘I Wonder as I Wander’, by African American poet Langston Hughes. It is a collection of essays on the various countries Hughes had explored. I read the book when I was eighteen and I already knew that I wanted to travel, to meddle with books and words and, more vaguely, to become a translator.