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From: book reviews Category: Art Date: 31 July 2008 Time: 01:33 PM Review: Decent book written in Berger's usual slightly wistful and elusive prose. You imagine Berger bestriding the globe talking to shepherds and gypsies and displaced people, reading them and their poetry, cooking a peasant stew, doing a sketch. Is he the ultimate right-on tourist, or someone who makes us aware of the suffering and brutal reach of capitalist exploitation. A bit of both, what's the solution, can we all be Bergers living in the mountains, publishing elegant books, painting. Perhaps.