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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.              Florence Nightengale.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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