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A dispatch from the end of travel's brief, troubled golden age | Aeon Essays

A dispatch from the end of travel's brief, troubled golden age | Aeon Essays

I am a clown ... and I collect moments.- Heinrich Böll, The Clown (1963) The first thing I linger over, when …

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The Lessons of Uzbekistan's Lost Sea

The Lessons of Uzbekistan's Lost Sea

Since the start of the current Holocene epoch, approximately 11,700 years ago, the rivers had sustained the A…

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A Remarkable Rail Journey Into the Horn of Africa's Past, and Future (Published 2019)

A Remarkable Rail Journey Into the Horn of Africa's Past, and Future (Published 2019)

A new train from the Ethiopian capital to the Djibouti coast offers a desert journey into parts of East Afric…

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Britain, nationalism and the complicated joy of vacationing in your own country

Britain, nationalism and the complicated joy of vacationing in your own country

In the 1860s, a consortium of businessmen commissioned a hotel for the flourishing spa town of Scarborough, o…

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In Algeria, a land of rock forests and stone giants - Lonely Planet

In Algeria, a land of rock forests and stone giants - Lonely Planet

Get ready for a journey through every country in the world. This fourth edition of The Travel Book features i…

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Letter of Recommendation: Bogs (Published 2016)

Letter of Recommendation: Bogs (Published 2016)

Letter of Recommendation Bogs, never the most cherished of landscapes, got a particularly bad rap when I was …

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The Mars Delusion

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| Noema Magazine Verified
Credits Henry Wismayer is a writer based in London. LONDON — On the corner of a busy gyratory, a bus ride from my house in south London, sits an unremarkable yellow-brick building. Each day, thousands of commuters sweep past this corner on the way to Vauxhall Bridge.
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El Sahara argelino, un museo de arte rupestre al aire libre

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| Dialnet - Universidad de La Rioja
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The Sahara Desert hasn't always been a dry, desolate landscape. Some scientists see signs it may be greening again

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| MSN Verified
An hour before dawn, in a nameless rock pile in the world's largest hot desert, Djimet Guemona clambered up a narrow gully. The route was hemmed by high walls, where uncountable centuries of weathering had cinched the sandstone into a rumpled, reptilian skin. From its base, the outcropping had looked like any one of the numerous rock formations, or hoodoos, in the northwest corner of the Ennedi Natural and Cultural Reserve , in eastern Chad.
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