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A Spaniard in Samarkand, 1404 (2012)
- mFixman 12y agoRes Obscura is an amazing blog that used to consistently publish obscure and amazing things. It's a pity that it didn't have a proper update in over a year.
- benbreen 12y agoThank you! Author here - I've been busy finishing my dissertation this past year but I do intend to start updating it again in 2015.
- personlurking 12y agoThere's a rather new newsletter made from the blog, the link for which is: http://tinyletter.com/resobscura http://tinyletter.com/resobscura
- pepon 12y agoFor those of you who can speak Spanish, this guy replicated Clavijo's route by motorbike and he recorded some pretty cool videos of the adventure: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQS7oakJitCbDcGFtHRggs-QIJXjICqr_ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQS7oakJitCbDcGFtHRgg...
- IndianAstronaut 12y agoGorskys color photos add a new perspective to life in these areas. 1910 in these places would not have been drastically different from life a few centuries earlier. Most of the world still did not have access to the modern technologies of the age.