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...On the Plain of Snakes: A Mexican Road Trip, by Paul Theroux, Hamish Hamilton, RRP£20/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, RRP$30 Now 78, the great traveller might be forgiven for choosing a relaxing cruise or a...
...They work in a former guesthouse in the 28-hectare grounds of Villa Hügel, a mansion on the outskirts of Essen built by Germany’s pre-eminent industrialist Alfred Krupp....
...Heni Publishing’s first volume of the artist’s complete works will be of this newest series and coincides with its unveiling at Houghton Hall in Norfolk on March 25....
...“My wife thought I was crazy,” Mr Houghton says....
...Houghton’s well-researched biography traces Denny’s success and its sabotage by drink and a fragile personality....
...Across the river was The Temple of British Worthies, an exedra of 16 statue busts, heroes of the Whig pantheon including King Alfred, the Black Prince, Sir Francis Drake, Milton, Newton and Locke....
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