CrossingsTopically, Crossings is a book about borders. Divided into two parts, it reflects on the many borders that Nicholas Murray has either crossed or confronted geographic, cultural, linguistic, social, class, religious, sexual and on the influence which borders have on how we think of ourselves and others. In the longer section Murray the traveller takes the reader to Spain and North Africa, Britain and Spain, on a trip along the Danube, and to Turkey. He

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