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...Additional reporting by Ivan Levingston, Will Louch, Arash Massoudi and Antoine Gara This article has been corrected to make clear that Mubadala Investment Company has $284bn in assets....
...Oliver Roeder Stan Kroenke, for example, the owner of Arsenal Football Club and much else, owns a large ranch called Q Creek....
...The scheme has clear benefits for the company’s goal to “increase guest capture and spend”, but has been met with scepticism by some in the industry who believe ski boots have to be tried on to ensure a...
...(This point has never been that clear, even and especially among law enforcement.) “I don’t want it happening on my land,” he continued....
...Then came colonisation and the start of clear-cutting logging practices . . . and here we are....
...The closely watched fund invoked the wisdom of the recently retired University of Alabama American football coach Nick Saban, a repeat guest at its offices, to describe its zeitgeist....
...But Alisal has been operating on 10,500 acres in the gorgeous rolling hills north-west of Santa Barbara since 1946, when it opened to just 30 guests for the summer....
...Then we crossed the line definitively, heading south into the clear blue Tapajós....
...“In some of the river creek systems, we only have about 10 centimetres of water underneath the hull,” he adds. Onboard, True North II’s purpose becomes obvious....
...The guests also included Julianne Moore, Mindy Kaling and a large number of the Lauren dynasty. Lauren, now 83, stood at the centre of proceedings....
...David Coggins and James Harvey-Kelly stayed as guests of The Ranch at Rock Creek, from $2,000 per night for two...
...He now owns a 266,000 acre ranch, valued at more than $320mn, about three and a half hours west of Fort Worth....
...The sea is shallow, cold and clear; the sand marked here and there with striations of seashells, mostly long razor clams, fragile and nacreous....
...They turn, fur brilliant in the sun, clear to the naked eye. Tessum talks me through the history of the Arctic, which he says unravels in layers....
...Sources tell DD the deal’s a clear signal from Silver Lake, which manages $92bn, that it is going to begin concentrating its investments....
...On the ranch, there is a clear purpose to the work, a pragmatism behind every action. And as I worked with my body, I began to notice all the space it freed up in my head....
...“Our global clientele have made it clear that they want something powerful and distinctive from us.”...
...(We are still waiting to try out tent “glamping” at Camp Long Creek, in Missouri’s Ozark Mountains....
...The Ranch Italy is a holiday that takes itself very seriously, and expects guests to do so too....
...On a winter morning two years ago, the doorman stationed there took a hard look at two uninvited guests....
...Ruth Jones, the founder of 3Thinkrs, says she has had to make clear that employees about to go on a break must undertake a week-long handover and switch off email and Slack....
...And then there is Triple Creek Ranch, hidden deep in the Bitterroot mountains 80 miles from the closest airport at Missoula....
...“The pandemic has spurred a fresh wave of excitement for this uniquely American travel experience,” says Jennifer O’Donohue, brand director at Triple Creek Ranch, a Relais & Chateaux-affiliated ranch in...
...Tom Robbins was a guest of the Berghaus Zallinger (zallinger.com)....
...With the moon high in the sky, I lay awake reading Tanizaki in bed, looking out through a mesh screen towards the riverine creek....
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