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Simon Winchester: Korea - a walk through the land of miracles

Winchester.jpg(Penguin 2004)

Originally published in 1988, but with a new preface for the 2004 revised edition. Uses the 1668 description of Korea by Hendrick Hamel as a framework. An extremely well-written book.

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Post a comment — Trackback URI RSS 2.0 feed for these comments This entry (permalink) was written by Philip Gowman and published on Monday, April 17, 2006, at 5:17 pm. Filed in Book reviews: Travel.

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  1. Jennifer Barclay: Meeting Mr Kim | London Korean Links on 20-Sep-08 at 2:42 pm

    [...] – trying (like Clive Leatherdale) to get to all four points of the compass, or in the case of Simon Winchester, trying to follow the route of a famous traveller from the past. Instead, this a lively record of [...]

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