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only what one sees and hears on one's travels, but also what one could not have possibly seen because it did not then nor did it ever exist. at the same time, these "wonders"--of legendary places, mythical people and wholly imagined events--make for good reading. fusing the world of the impossible with
for what lurked under the surface of the factual, the visible. for instance, chapter 1 of his second book described the "world and its inhabitants--men and jinns"; chapter 2, "its wonders and monuments"; chapter 3, its "seas and fantastic animals"; and chapter 4, "its caves, tombs, and ossuaries--with...
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