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Article: All that glisters is not gold

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June 3, 1995
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These days, travel writers can supplement their earnings by taking a film-crew on their journeys, willingly submitting to the intrusive camera and the grumbling of the sound-recordist when a parakeet squawks at the moment an Andean medicine man reveals the meaning of life. The unique intimacy of travel is crowded out by clumping film technicians. Everything becomes hideously literal, smoothed out by the glassy eye of the camera.

It is sad to see the talented Charles Nicholl succumb to the gleam of gold in his quest for El Dorado; in this case, Channel Four gold. Whereas Colin Thubron allowed a film crew to travel with him only on a preliminary expedition to central Asia, Nicholl takes one ...

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