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Complete the following, giving examples:The finest recent travel books are those that:

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1. undertake a parallel journey, matching the physical steps of a pilgrimage with the metaphysical steps of a questioning 

e.g. in Peter Matthiessen’s great “The Snow Leopard”. 

2. chronicle a trip to the farthest reaches of human strangeness 

e.g. Oliver Sacks’ “Island of the Color-Blind,” which features a journey not just to a remote atoll in the Pacific, but to a realm where people actually see light differently).



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