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June 27, 2003

William Dalrymple on travel in a shrinking world

“Such are the humiliations of the travel writer in the late twentieth century: go to the ends of the earth to search for the most exotic heretics in the world, and you find they have cornered the kebab business at the end of your street in London.”
–William Dalrymple, From the Holy Mountain (1997)

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