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   Erland Sommarskog to Mark Brader   
   Re: QFTCI23 Game 6, Rounds 2-3: travel l   
   04 Dec 23 22:38:35   
   
   From: esquel@sommarskog.se   
      
   Mark Brader (msb@vex.net) writes:   
   > 1. Who is the prolific American novelist who has also written   
   >    many travel books, often detailing long train journeys, such as   
   >    "The Old Patagonian Express" and "The Great Railway Bazaar"?   
      
   Gee, that express must be really old! I have travelled in Patagonia,   
   and one thing it is not: criss-crossed by railway tracks. I seem to   
   recall that there is a tourist train around Río Turbio, though,   
      
   As for the question, I guess Paul Theroux, but that is based on   
   having read question 4, so absolutely no points for me.   
      
   > 5. Who is the pioneering Englishwoman whose many letters home were   
   >    eventually published more than a century after they were   
   >    written, in 1987, as "Letters from Egypt: A Journey on the   
   >    Nile 1849-1850"?  The events that brought her lasting fame   
   >    happened a few years later.  Er, that is, she got famous a few   
   >    years after 1850, not 1987.   
      
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