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Time off: MAN ABOUT WORLD: Next up, Alexander. Now that's a challenge ...
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Whatever else he was, Alexander was a great tourist. No one had
travelled a route like his before. From Greece to Samarkand and back
across the vicious Makran Desert, Alexander trailed his army of
Macedons on the ultimate gap-year adventure. In fact, it took the
King of
Macedonia eight years to trek his way through what are now Turkey,
Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan,
Tajikistan, Pakistan and India.
No doubt Oliver Stone's forthcoming film is ...
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