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192 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1910
Living as I do with human beings, the more that I observe them, the more I am forced to conclude that they are selfish.

Culture shock is something we all expect, and are prepared for. Reverse culture shock, on the other hand, is far more unexpected and debilitating. Returning home to a place we have created in our minds, and finding it not as we remembered, is much harder than leaving home for somewhere we expect to be different. The ultimate realisation that we can never go home, is a deeply upsetting one, and the cause of an awful melancholy from which it is hard to recover. Or maybe this is just what growing old is.