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And Other Voyages by Robin Magowan

vasha's review

2.0

Robin Magowan is a poet, and these travel vignettes are written with an extravagance of language, crammed with metaphor and simile, that was sometimes striking but more often came off as pretentious and overdone. Furthermore, he's a seeker of exoticism, and that's not necessarily a good thing; there's an insistence on seeing everything as manifestations of the mystery of the East, or as emanations of the deep national character of such and such people, that illuminates a lot less about the places he travels than about his own sensual tastes. In some of the chapters he has lots of sexual adventures, and in others it's about his spiritual and artistic life; somehow this didn't appeal to me enough to get me to read the whole thing.