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| | TravelSmart Newsletter Book Recommendations |
 | | Some of her hosts, hostesses and dining companions are so low-key in their exaltedness that, unless you tend to run in those circles, you may not even know their names. |
 | | In the latter category we have Julia Roberts, Lee Bailey, Elaine Stritch, Renee Zellweger, Katharine Hepburn, Iris Love, David and Helen Gurley Brown, Nora Ephron, Malcolm Forbes, and oh yes The Burtons -- Elizabeth Taylor and husband number five (and six) Richard Burton. |
 | | In prose that is accessible and entertaining, she conveys a strong sense of what life was like for ordinary men and women on the Silk Road--from itinerant Buddhist monks and Nestorian Christians to soldiers, artists, musicians and peddlers. |
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