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Vintage travel guide accidentally becomes masterpiece of tourist horror fiction
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Is Collins' Pocket Interpreters: France (1937 edition) the most pessimistic phrasebook ever published? What was meant as a practical tool for British tourists instead became an accidental masterpiece of travel anxiety literature, suggesting that a trip to France was less about seeing the Eiffel Tower and more about navigating a gauntlet of pickpockets, stalkers, and blood loss. — Read the rest The post Vintage travel guide accidentally becomes masterpiece of tourist horror fiction appeared first on Boing Boing.