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Tag: exploration

Travel Writing

The Faber Book of Exploration, Benedict Allen

On one level, Benedict Allen has compiled an impressive volume of accounts of exploration throughout history that can be enjoyed as heroic adventures and tales of “derring-do”. But I can’t help feeling depressed as I read story after story of exploitation, greed, cruelty and murder, often carried out in the name of “civilisation” or religion.… Read More

Posted 19 years ago August 7, 2004
By Tony Turton
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