"Whirr! whirr! all by wheels! — whiz! whiz! all by steam!"
I've been thinking today, as I sometimes do, of the perils of reliance upon translators and translations. In such pondering, a specific
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I've been thinking today, as I sometimes do, of the perils of reliance upon translators and translations. In such pondering, a specific
What makes a good travel book? Here Jonathan Raban, who died this week, explains what separates the mediocre from the great
To arrive in Venice by train is to enter through the city's back door, although the exit from the station's drab interior straight onto a Grand Canal bustling with waterborne traffic and lined with palazzi in ochre, cream and pink is a coup de theâtre that few other destinations can match. But Venice was always meant to be entered by...