Tragic Shores: A Memoir of Dark Travel'I have come to thank dark places for the light they bring to life.' Thomas Cook has always been drawn to dark places for the powerful emotions they evoke and for what we can learn from them. These lessons are often unexpected and sometimes profoundly intimate but they are never straightforward. With his wife and daughter Cook travels across the globe in search of darkness from Lourdes to Ghana from San Francisco to Verdun from the monumental

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