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Shortlisted for the 2018 Ondaatje Prize Shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year A masterful and entirely fresh portrait of great hopes and d

First Published in 1977. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.