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If hot food is they key to maintaining an expedition's stamina, then low grade gut-rot alcohol is the key to sustaining its sense of pleasure.

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Tahir Shah
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: November 16
Author
Comedian
Explorer
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
London
England
Hot
Expeditions
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Stamina
Keys
Sustaining
Food
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Pleasure
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Sense
Grades
Guts
Alcohol
Expedition

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