Behn, a trailblazer in her own right as the first woman in to write professionally in English, made, according to her account, a round trip under more privileged circumstances, living for a time in slaveholding Surinam in the 1660s.
But I'm privileged in that my business trips are really out of the norm.
But the threat of collapse has forced the Degmo team to look into new ways of raising money to subsidise trips for the less privileged and the most at-risk and needy Somali communities.
My parents were doctors, and under the shah they and my older brothers had enjoyed the kind of privileged life such positions would normally afford: frequent trips abroad, a nice house with a swimming pool, other luxuries.
Last August I was privileged to travel to Guatemala on a medical mission trip together with a team of surgeons from across the U.S. We operated on more than 200 people who were blind or nearly blind from cataracts.
This is just one stop in a long-term project to examine the Grand Tour, a cultural trip that was a rite of passage for privileged young men before the advent of mass tourism.
Stepping into Cathach Books, an antiquarian bookshop in Dublin, where a friend on a recent trip through the city directed me, gives you a privileged literary perspective.
It is for these reasons that Brazilians have aggressive envy of America, and why more privileged Brazilians escape to the US, be it via a yearly trip or permanent immigration.
Reading and learning should not just be for the privileged, for the people who can afford books from Amazon or trips to Stratford-upon-Avon.
