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18 September 2013
Book review: Wealth and poverty of nations (1999), by David Landes, *****
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Synopsis The history of nations is a history of haves and have-nots, and as we approach the millennium, the gap between rich and poor co...
10 July 2013
Viaggio o vacanza?
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Una vacanza (dal latino vacantia , periodo di vuoto) è un viaggio intrapreso alla ricerca di una sorta di riposo, di un’interruzione, uno sv...
09 September 2012
Book review: The Dark Tourist (2010), by Dom Joly, ***
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Sinister looking WW I artillery on Monte Grappa Synopsis 'Dark tourism is the act of travel and visitation to sites, attractions ...
12 January 2012
Book Review: The Skeptical Environmentalist, by Bjorn Lomborg, *****
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Pollution in the Maldives Synopsis Lomborg, an associate professor of statistics in the Department of Political Science at the Univer...
01 July 2010
Book Review: A Sense of the World. How a Blind Man became the World's Greatest Traveler, by Jason Roberts, *****
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Synopsis When Lieutenant James Holman sailed to Russia in 1822, intent on crossing Siberia on his way to circumnavigate a globe still lar...
06 April 2008
Recensione: La Democrazia degli Altri, di Amartya Sen, *****
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Sinossi Le difficoltà incontrate dalla coalizione angloamericana nel secondo dopoguerra iracheno hanno portato alla ribalta il problema d...
01 December 2006
Book Review: Identity and Violence, by Amartya Sen, *****
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Synopsis In this penetrating book, Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen argues that we are becoming increasingly divided along lines of religion a...
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17 December 2005
Book Review: Neutral Buoyancy: Adventures in a Liquid World, by Tim Ecott, *****
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Synopsis A brilliant mix of vivid reportage, history and science. Historical diving bells, greek sponge divers, world war two frogmen and r...
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03 December 2005
Book Review: Investment Biker, by Jim Rogers, *****
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Synopsis Wealth does strange things to people. It can either control them or set them free. Jim Rogers falls into the latter camp. Like an...
02 December 2005
Book Review: Adventure Capitalist, by Jim Rogers, *****
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Jim and wife Paige at the end of their tour in 2002. Synopsis The bestselling author of Investment Biker is back from the ultimate roa...
01 October 2002
Why travel: country collectors, eternal romantics and modernizers
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I believe that a journey, like a work of art, should ideally be either enjoyable or interesting – and preferably both. But if traveling is n...
01 January 2001
Today the new Millennium starts
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Today is the start of the new millennium. Some, like Dick Teresi , have argued that this is the result of a number of errors in year countin...
01 January 2000
Today is not the start of the new Millennium!
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To see when the new millennium actually starts, go to my post of 1 January 2001! Much of the world celebrates the new Millennium today, bu...
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