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...Our guide is Sean Nelson, an Oman travel specialist and an ex-British Royal Marine, who has been scoping out the island for months....
...Then there are the downsizers, such as the Mariner, an ex-seaman cashing in his literary chips, who enticingly waved a volume of antique erotica (women in diving helmets), originating what the management...
...Beneath the watchful eye of Brindisi’s towering stone memorial to lost first world war mariners, a lone rower skims across the still waters of the city’s harbour....
...Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany’s Wealthiest Dynasties by David de Jong, William Collins £25/Mariner Books $28.99, 400 pages Joe Miller is the FT’s Frankfurt correspondent Join our online...
...Padma Lakshmi is also editor of The Best American Travel Writing 2021 (Mariner Books, $16.99)...
...There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the 21st Centuryby Fiona Hill, Mariner Books $30 As senior director for Russia in the Trump White House, the author worked closely with the president...
...Mariner was led by Laura, thirtysomething, ex-Canadian navy, and frankly relishing the chance to guide a group of self-selecting adult enthusiasts. “With you guys I’m going to nerd out,” she exclaimed....
...You are no more aware of your 200,000-strong workforce than the sea is of mariners sailing on it or drowning in it. Each City toiler comes and goes in a beat of your leathery old heart....
...Hamish McGregor Ogston CBE is the outspoken 67-year old ex-mariner who founded CPP in 1980, sold a third to shareholders for about £120m in 2010 at 235p a share, and remained a director until 2013....
...Chowder’s rants about everything from US foreign policy to his ex-partner form a web of connections brought together with symphonic skill....
...The ex-chairman loves BP well enough to accept the challenge. He has the diplomatic skills. And the scandal he left over now seems quaint....
...Sovcomflot has filed for $600m in damages, alleging the ex-employees conducted corrupt chartering deals before the two companies merged....
...Layers peel away until Captain Ahab is revealed with Hollywood flourish, spotlights cutting to a white-haired deus ex machina perched high in his library above his cowed roadies....
...Three centuries later, such was the culling of ex-public school officers in the first world war trenches that young men from other types of schools were also accepted into the officers’ mess....
...Beware thee… On his bad days, David James is the Ancient Mariner of goalkeeping: "he catcheth one in three"....
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