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...Captain John Freyer, unable to locate adequate timber to repair the ship in the young city, headed to a mountainous region to its south-east and found “a forest of tree masts” that meant the Admiral could...
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...Outlaws, whores, clerks, naval men and tavern-keepers add to the sense of a teeming world where Calley’s tenacious pursuit is just one small detail....
...Hello, Salar The task embraced by three bored men-about-town in John Buchan’s novel John Macnab is deliberately hard: to poach a salmon or stag from three well-guarded Highland estates....
...Captain James McGlashan survived Waterloo, then bet that he could walk 125 miles through the jungle, only to catch malaria....
...Wearing a red jacket with the words “captain” emblazoned on the back — a nod to his experience as a competitive sailor — Mr Laplanche said: “I think we are just getting started.”...
...One day, a teenage girl named Natty turns up at the tavern with a proposal for Jim. Will he sail with her to Treasure Island and retrieve the horde of silver left by Captain Flint four decades earlier?...
...It was, Mr Einhorn recalls in a book he wrote about it, like “The Firm in John Grisham’s book, without the sexual tension and chase scenes”....
...And there’s a virtuoso split-screen action sequence, a stunt-choreographed tavern fight as elaborate and OTT-suspenseful as a Brian De Palma set piece. It all deteriorates at the end....
...Warning of bank fallout About five weeks ago, a handful of captains of industry walked into Downing Street to deliver an awkward message to David Cameron and George Osborne....
...Engineer IMI , unchanged at 914p, was a leading candidate for promotion to the blue-chips, followed by John Wood Group , up 1 per cent to 503p....
...Other Scots supporting England include Sir Chris Hoy, the cyclist, Dougray Scott, the actor, and Craig Levein and Darren Fletcher, manager and captain of the Scottish football team....
...Justin Marozzi is the author of ‘The Man Who Invented History: Travels with Herodotus’, published by John Murray...
...He has decided not to join the new, as yet un-named, company, arguing that “a ship should have one captain”. So when it came to culture he said: “I don’t think in terms of problems but challenges....
...The other name linked was Spirit Group, supposedly a target for Punch Taverns....
...Some analysts feel that John Hargreaves, chairman, whose family owns 53 per cent of the company, would consider selling Matalan if offered 300 per share....
...The 200 top executives summoned by the Kerry campaign yesterday to prove the Massachusetts Senator's business credentials included billionaires old and new, captains of industry, high-tech visionaries and...
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