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3 May 2023
"Closing the Gap" on the Yarlung-Tsangpo River
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The Heart of the World: A Journey to the Last Secret Place by Ian Baker (Penguin, 2004) This is a good, pacey and engaging travelogue, ...
1 December 2022
Colin Thubron - Time Seen As A Road ... Or A River
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Colin Thubron There is something mellifluously melancholy in the tone of Colin Thubron’s travel books. He is a wonderful writer, a genuine...
30 May 2022
Raiders of the Lost Art
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THE COMPENSATIONS OF PLUNDER by Justin M. Jacobs (University of Chicago Press, 2020) An excellent and informed riposte to the increasin...
15 November 2021
Owen Lattimore's Desert Road
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In early January 2020, I bought myself a copy of Owen Lattimore’s The Desert Road to Turkestan (1929) in the gorgeous treasure house of b...
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