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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent unused condition. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Rushing along country roads precludes discovery; and if a list of “sites not to be missed” exists burn it because that is a record of someone else’s adventure. Instead bring curiosity an open mind and a ca- pacity to wander aimlessly at least in the early days of the route. For ten years Guillermo Srodek-Hart roamed over thousands of kilometers of remote coun- try roads in Argentina stopping in small towns at isolated dwellings and in front of buildings lacking any remotely modern details. Think of Alice’s adven- ture when she fell through the rabbit hole or Owen Wilson’s character Gil in the movie Midnight in Paris when he is mysteriously transported into earlier Parisian decades. Srodek-Hart did not meet any mad queens but he is now acquainted with a head-shrinker (of the physical not mental kind). More like the fic- tional Gil he met artisans with skills more common in other eras and he found types of businesses long since replaced elsewhere by chain stores. As he began to photograph the project’s focus slowly became the interiors of these small business some of which were no longer functioning but left with dust-laden mer- chandise undisturbed by the passage of considerable (MP)