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Dean writes about the new sounds overwrought and exaggerMaybach 62S (“a more especial mayated, but it really isn’t it.” bach,“ page 112) in a slide bar to his

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the tour company Nomads of the Seas, car. “I had high hopes for the Mclarin SOUTH of Uganda, across lake which employs its 150-ft expedition that it wopuld a little more of a daily victoria, is Tanzania, where contirYacht as a lodge and base of operation driver, a little more civilized.“ It is not, buting editor Jill Newman toured in the most remote parts of Patagonia. and therein lies its appeal. at Tanzanite mine and visited with Nolan describe his trip in “Nomads in

If not more civilized, Dubai cerofficial from the mining company No-mans-land” (page 128). “The thing tainly has become more cosmopolitan TanzaniteOne for the feature “singthat made even the fishing interesting in the last 15 years. “This is an intriguing the blues“ (page 166). “There’s was the palces where you were doing ing place with probably more questions still a lot of confusion,“ she says, it,“ he says. than answer,“ Dean says. “But its someregarding the rarity of exceptional

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