"There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring."
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George Borrow
George Henry Borrow (July 5 1803 – July 26 1881) was an eccentric English travel-writer, novelist, memoirist and translator, known especially for his sympathetic portrayal of his friends among the Romany people.
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