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...The vessel accommodates eight guests in four cabins and sets sail from Muscat’s Al Mouj Marina, heading north-west to the Ad Dimaniyat Islands....
...Woman, Life, Freedom by Marjane Satrapi et al (Seven Stories Press) The much-feted author of the graphic novel Persepolis leads a collection of vivid, “visually stunning” accounts of the current unrest gripping...
...Wiegand is remembering his boyhood in a neat office at Lilium’s headquarters at a small airport south-west of Munich....
...At the bottom is Pata Lodge, in a small verdant valley enclosed by an amphitheatre of Andean peaks....
...In the foreground, Mutu’s red soil, wood-entwined figure “Sentinel V” presides like a grotesque goddess — part Earth mother, part vengeful spirit....
...Studying the owl photograph, it’s tempting to see the chained bird as Rooney’s familiar. Longing to fly from the spotlight and observe us, her prey, under cover of darkness....
...As the fish died, the birds that fed on them disappeared too, or worse — died off themselves....
...This expanded into a west African foray which encompassed the tiny island nation of São Tomê and Príncipe, Ghana, Gambia and Senegal....
...Could the same happen in New York or Crystal City? “Amazon” Cuomo et al will hope not....
...on 400 years of opera, in partnership with London’s V&A museum....
...Manuscripts range from a west African teaching Koran to gilded folios from the Persian Book of Kings. Rarely seen textiles include a shocking-pink embroidered bride’s tunic from the Swat Valley....
...In a city that can sustain shows like the V&A’s recent Opera: Passion, Power and Politics, which had a working replica of a baroque theatre, it is easy to forget how hard it is for venerable institutions...
...a record 1,900 species of bird)....
...Woman At Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi, a radical Egyptian feminist provocateur; Sarah Bakewell’s At the Existentialist Café, on Sartre, Camus, Simone de Beauvoir et al....
...Such is the appeal of west Africa for Roland, the damaged, dodgy narrator of Johnson’s spy novel....
...Greene herself steers clear of criticising Amazon but she angrily sums up the challenge from Whistl et al like this: “This is not the kind of competition that drives efficiency....
...Bayer is less well known than his contemporaries at the Bauhaus – Walter Gropius, Wassily Kandinsky, László Moholy-Nagy et al – perhaps because, having emigrated from Germany in 1938, he spent so much of...
...They show how bizarre effects such as tunnelling, entanglement and superposition can account for bird navigation, plant photosynthesis and our sense of smell....
...Quite how verdant all the countryside that surrounds Geneva is this particular summer became even more obvious an hour later, once we’d arrived at the Domaine de Châteauvieux, west of the city....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...It is 25 minutes’ drive from VC Bird international airport in St John’s, the island’s capital. The land slopes around the bay to a white crescent beach....
...Wildlife is abundant and at least 229 different species of bird have been recorded in the area....
...“I didn’t feel that much, to be honest,” he says on the phone from his headquarters in the city of Wuxi, west of Shanghai. “From the eyes of an outsider, it’s ‘Wow, it happened so quickly!’...
...It is as if Twitter, Facebook et al have conspired to return the novel to its most basic function: to provide a world that cannot stop picking things up and casting them aside with the gift of unputdownability...
...The fresh pasta is already moist inside when you start to cook it – it will never be al dente in the same way that a dried one will....
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