January 2013
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“We suppose that we are superior to dung beetles, but are we really? At least...”
– Dung Beetles, Dancing to the Milky Way
Jan 30th
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“If we have a million photos, we tend to value each one less than if we only had...”
– David Gelernter, who worries about the prevalence of drivel online. What do another 149 smart people worry about?
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October 2012
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August 2012
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Back our Kickstarter Campaign» Old World Wandering is an experiment. It is a literary travelogue reinvented for the internet. Over the past year, we have travelled across Southeast Asia and the Indian Subcontinent, looking for connections: connections between past and present, between communities, and – most of all – between places. We believe that travel writing is about journeys, not...
Aug 30th
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Aug 29th
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Aug 23rd
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William Dalrymple: "What is to become of travel... →
When In Xanadu was published at the end of the 80s, travel writing tended to highlight the narrator: his adventures were the subject; the people he met were often reduced to objects in the background. I have tried to invert this, and keep the narrator in the shadows, so bringing the lives of the people I have met to the fore and placing their stories centre stage. Above all, I had to consider...
Aug 23rd
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“Traveling with Clinton is like chasing after a woman shot out of a cannon with...”
– Nine Days with the Most Traveled Secretary of State in History
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Aug 9th
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“Beirutis go by landmarks of memory or desire: a narcissist may tell you to go...”
– Bread of Beirut, Annia Ciezadlo
Aug 9th
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“A creature can never be a perfect being, but may be a perfect creature — e.g. a...”
– C.S Lewis’ response to a boy named Hugh, who asked for a definition of “gaiety”, from C.S. Lewis: Letters to Children.
Aug 8th
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“If you’ve read anything in the last year about the burgeoning African...”
– Jina Moore
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July 2012
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“Flora: “While having tiffin on the veranda of my bungalow I spilled...”
– Hobson-Jobson: The words English owes to India
Jul 30th
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Jul 28th
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The story of China's obsession with ping pong →
Table tennis has come a long way from its origins, when squiffy Victorian gents – possibly officers serving in India – used cigar box lids to bat champagne corks at each other. “Other nations looked at the dining table and saw an opportunity to have dinner. We looked at the dining table and saw an opportunity to play whiff-whaff,” Johnson told his audience in Beijing. An alternative...
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In 1989, German couple Gunther and Christine Holtorf set out on what was meant to be an 18-month tour of Africa in their Mercedes Benz G Wagon. Now, with more than 800,000km on the clock, Gunther is still going. 
Jul 26th
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To watch clashes over the Syrian border, Israelis... →
Jul 25th
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