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...An apt moniker for the islanders who — thanks to poor communication links with the mainland — have kept their traditions, despite five centuries of Portuguese colonisation....
...Certain images recur: Baker’s birdwatching journals are “coal to The Peregrine’s diamond” — apt for the way the book collapses a decade’s worth of his journal entries into one “season” — while The Peregrine...
...It is an apt metaphor, perhaps, for a country battling for independent nationhood when it has never been more engaged with the outside world. generationartscotland.org Main photograph: Antonia Reeve...
...Britain insists it will never hand over the Falklands against the islanders’ wishes. Besides, any preliminary talks must involve the islanders, too. “It takes three to tango” is perhaps the apt phrase....
...The woman’s saying was apt: here I was, fantasising about the possibilities of island life, whereas my initial impressions had been distinctly mixed....
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