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Travelogue
A travelogue is a written record of a journey. Travelogues have a long history, from Pausanias' account of 2nd-century Greece, to Marco Polo's travels in 13th-century Asia, to the 19th-century ramblings of Mark Twain, through to modern travel literature.
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Now, I was unemployed in Beijing, and my former ambition seemed like the pollution that smudged the sky, a great green cloud composed of a billion different particles of fear and uncertainty. Without a career I hardly knew who I was anymore.
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― Mastering the Art of French Eating: Lessons in Food and Love from a Year in Paris
― Mastering the Art of French Eating: Lessons in Food and Love from a Year in Paris
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Perhaps there is to be found in Pastrana the key to something which happens in Spain more frequently than is necessary. Past splendor overwhelms and in the end exhausts the people's will; and without force of will, as can be seen in so many cases, by being exclusively occupied with the contemplation of the glories of the past, they leave current problems unsolved. When the belly is empty and the mind filled with golden memories, the golden memories continually retreat and at last, though no one
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