European plantation owners struggling with the local population's resistance were eager to attract labour from further afield.
Oral news networks in the neighbourhoods where they lived or worked would have provided some perspectives, as would letters and travellers from further afield.
Geographical boundaries can be overcome as individual and groups experience events and developments far afield.
Exposure to experiences further afield has also been influential in suggesting new approaches.
At the risk of straying too far afield, let me provide some background on mathematical learning theory.
Attitudes toward language varieties might not be typically viewed as constituting formal linguistic study, and may even seem far afield from language pedagogy.
But that discussion demands a longer study than this essay, which has already wandered too far afield.
It would take me too far afield to offer a general critique of it here, however.
