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Perceptive Travel - May 2020
Welcome to the May 2020 issue of online magazine Perceptive Travel, the home of great travel stories from book authors and the latest notable travel book reviews. This month it's a "You Weren't Going to Go There Anyway" retrospective, with narrative stories from obscure dots on the globe for your armchair traveling pleasure.
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Abkhazia: Party Amidst the Ruins by Stephen M. Bland
Finding that Russian tourists will go most anywhere that speaks their language and serves cheap vodka, a writer joins them in the gutted and gut-wrenching former section of Georgia known as Abkhazia.
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Uzupis: In Search of a State by Tom Coote
Surrounded by Lithuania's capital city, Vilnius, the Independent Republic Of Uzupis remains a sanctuary for arty libertarian intellectuals and their Jewish heritage.
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In North Korea - a Journey Behind the Fiction by Rory MacLean
A writer and photographer enter the strange parallel universe known as North Korea together and try to get into the heads of the people living there.
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A Place to Not Think in Central Serbia by Jonathan Arlan
When a long Balkan trip hits a lull, a chance conversation sends the author to a monastery deeper in the hills of Serbia.
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Reliving an Abandoned Town on the Patagonian Coast by Madelaine Triebe
At the end of a dirt road far away from any civilization, a couple slowly revives a settlement in Argentina that has been sitting empty for more than half a century.
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