While I believe that the documentary format is a crucial part of media journalism, I think it in dubious taste to tell this particular set of stories in a context so full of spectacularizing visual tricks and special effects.
A scapular, or friar's coat, for example, was a coveted object to be worn as a preservative against pestilence or the ague […]
[…] fastened to it by a clasp at the back and a linch pin in front; the passguard, or elbow-piece; and the bridle-gauntlet.
The border of the great north-west province of Xinjiang, a region three times the size of France, lay at the mining town of Mangnai, fifty miles beyond where I was sleeping. This was an old, feared frontierland - High Tartary or Chinese Turkestan - one sixth of all China now, which barged up against Central Asia. But at Mangnai the road roughened to a stone trail, where trucks, even my bus, gave up.
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