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Articles posted by John Gimlette
John Gimlette
John Gimlette has won the Shiva Naipaul Memorial Prize and the Wanderlust Travel Writing Award, and he contributes regularly to The Times (London), The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Independent, and Condé Nast Traveller. When not traveling, he practices law in London.
Why I Became a Travel Writer
John Gimlette on Doing the Not Very Sensible Thing
February 24, 2016 By
John Gimlette
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