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Competing with the guidebook

by Nicky Gardner

Picture above: photo © David Iushewitz / dreamstime.com

Summary

Two new series of books, one from Oxygen Books in the UK and the other from Duke University Press in the USA impel us to reflect on a growing public appetite for anthologies of good literature about places in Europe.

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