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Over the years, the BGTW Yearbook has become one of the most valuable tools in the British travel trade. Not only does it have detailed biographies and contact information for all Guild members, around 270 of the UK’s top travel journalists, but it also includes a comprehensive directory of over 2,700 specialist PR companies, publications, broadcast media, tourist offices, tour and transport operators and other useful companies and organisations operating in the UK travel...
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Buffalo Roundup, South Dakota by Godfrey Hall

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“By the Singapore River the skyscrapers of the Central Business District flash through momentarily, unreal and unnatural, wearing their windows like twinkling chain mail. If there exists any beauty in this vision, it is not the Creator’s; it is the elegance of geometric lines and curves fashioning a horizon shaped by Man as master of the jungle’s anarchy.”

John Malathronas, Singapore Swing, (Summersdale, 2007)

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