Eric Leed author of the The mind of the traveler (1991) states that "the mind of the traveler or is driven by contradictory needs, desiring "motion and rest, liberty and confinement, indeterminacy and definition", while Dr. Chris McAuliffe Curator, Ian Potter Museum of Art, the University of Melbourne, suggests that "it is the sequencing of these desires into a resolved journey, both literal and metaphorical, that blanches the contradictions".
In Women and the journey: the female travel experience (1993), Catharine Simpson indicates that "women often pay more attention to the process of the journey then men do. Rather than seeing travel as a matter of taking territory or marking the boundaries of a space, women travellers seek connections, engagement and above all a sense of affect".
Responding to the pleasures and dangers that arise from this engagement is what gives Jenny Watson her voice. Not "what did I see?" nor "where did I go?" but "what did I feel?".
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