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Poetically if not geographically, the Kuria Murias belong to the same harmonious archipelago as Serendip, the Celebes, Tahiti and Taprobane, Andaman and Nicobar, the Isle of Grain and the Isle of Dogs. I had fallen in love with the name years before, in the atlas.
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Tim Mackintosh-Smith (Travels with a Tangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah)