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...There will be horses, pistols, ten-gallon hats and a climactic shootout....
...Old cities industrialised on the right, California and its gold got statehood on the left — and a Great American Desert lay between....
...Over several decades, du Pont amassed one of the most highly regarded collections of American memorabilia ever assembled – including silver-mounted flintlock pistols ($25,000-$50,000), antique walnut furniture...
...As well as sublime evocation of landscapes, there are encounters with the people who live in these extreme places, including Standing Eagle, the founder of an off-grid community in the Tabernas desert who...
...Their scrub and mangrove forests teem with eagles and fruit bats and flying foxes; they’re said to also harbour mbou, a cousin to the famous dragons of the Komodo archipelago, located 150km to the west....
...Mine, even minus pistol and parasol, is threatening to turn into an enemy....
...Disappointingly, I’m only going as far as Lamy, New Mexico, a 1,076-mile, 25-hour journey. We soon encounter our first delay....
...“We’ve got a neon Jesus in here, with blue pistols,” explains owner and creative director Marcus Bracey. “He’s called ‘Son of a Gun’, you see? We thought it was funny....
...down 25 per cent from its peak in March....
...Denis Island Lodge delivers the desert-island fantasy: talcum-soft beaches where turtles and eagle rays can be seen in the shallows, giant tortoises, a circular freshwater swimming pool for when you tire...
...Dairy Crest said using John Lydon, the frontman of punk band the Sex Pistols, in Country Life adverts had helped to boost annual sales of the butter by more than a quarter....
...Estimate is $550,000-$750,000, while a bronze by Christophe Fratin showing a pair of eagles attacking a lynx is tipped to realise around $500,000....
...On his transatlantic flight he felt he had penetrated “beyond mortality”, and on a subsequent trip to the Utah desert he asked himself, “If man could learn to fly, why could he not learn how to live forever...
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