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The Victorian inventor who turned travel into a slide show

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Long before obnoxious influencers pitched detox tea from Bali, a Victorian hustler coined the word 'travelogue' and made an absolute fortune charging people to look at his vacation slides. Burton Holmes spent his life filming exotic locales and touring theaters, basically inventing the art of making the middle-class insanely jealous of destinations they couldn't afford.

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