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Tourism
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I was hungry when I left Pyongyang. I wasn't hungry just for a bookshop that sold books that weren't about Fat Man and Little Boy. I wasn't ravenous just for a newspaper that had no pictures of F.M. and L.B. I wasn't starving just for a TV program or a piece of music or theater or cinema that wasn't cultist and hero-worshiping. I was hungry. I got off the North Korean plane in Shenyang, one of the provincial capitals of Manchuria, and the airport buffet looked like a cornucopia. I fell on the fo
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― Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
― Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
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I muse to myself on the way in which tourism is divorced from reality – how we serve visitors an idealised version of history that is centred on inanimate objects rather than tackling the complex question raised by the forces that animate progress. We glory in our architecture without asking the price of its beauty; we salute the static soldier without a thought of where he has marched and what for. I cross the road, moving away from these delicate questions
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― Hidden Heritage: Rediscovering Britain’s Relationship with the Orient
― Hidden Heritage: Rediscovering Britain’s Relationship with the Orient
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