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Hardcover The Tartan Turban: In Search of Alexander Gardner Book

ISBN: 1911271008

ISBN13: 9781911271000

The Tartan Turban: In Search of Alexander Gardner

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Like the travels of Marco Polo, those of Alexander Gardner clip the white line between credible adventure and creative invention. Either he is the nineteenth century's most intrepid traveler or its most egregious fantasist, or a bit of both. Contemporaries generally believed him; posterity became more skeptical. And as with Polo, the investigation of Gardner's story enlarged man's understanding of the world and upped the pace of scientific and political...

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