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Between worlds.(Report from Europe)(an exhibition of the portraits of the first North Americans who traveled to Great Britain)(Brief article)

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The National Portrait Gallery in London is home, through June 17, to an exhibition entitled Between Worlds: Voyagers to Britain 1700-1850, which explores the experience and impact of some of the first travelers to Britain from North America, the South Pacific, Asia, and Africa. Among the visitors depicted is Dean Mahomed, who at the beginning of the nineteenth century established a coffeehouse serving Indian food--London's first Indian ...

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