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...Fitzroya trees of Alerce Andino National Park....
...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...
...The suites vary, but all are 50sq m with courtyard entrances, and furnished with pieces by – or at least inspired by – Arne Jacobsen, Eero Saarinen, Joe Colombo, Isamu Noguchi, Charles and Ray Eames et al...
...At university, Hyeok had once watched an Indian film in which a character travels to the US....
...Seven Samurai became The Magnificent Seven (1960). Gain: headlong action brio and a cast of overnight Hollywood stars-to-be (McQueen, Bronson et al)....
...The Seychelles may share Zanzibar’s Indian Ocean waters, but we found little there of the textured history, or the intriguing recessiveness, of Stone Town....
...always includes a stroll through its English Garden, one of the world’s largest urban public parks....
...itself, rung to signify the passing that day of one of the village’s few remaining residents....
...on 400 years of opera, in partnership with London’s V&A museum....
...“The population of the village was disappearing but the village was expanding. A neighbour I thought was a local turned out to be a nuclear scientist from Frankfurt. The sounds of the cows disappeared....
...“The days of one-and-a-half or two-hour lunches are gone,” notes Stéphane Klein, head of Pret A Manger for France. “But this remains a moment of conviviality.”...
...to adumbrate such a long and expansive history of trade and exchange across the Indian Ocean world....
...When I dropped in on the head of the Supreme Court — in chambers as cosy as those of an English country solicitor — he turned out to be a former student of my guide....
...Amazingly, this windy two-street village on the edge of the map has its own boutique hotel....
...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...
...I crouched down to scrub grit from the plaque at the head of the grave....
...Indian experience over the past two decades demonstrates this conclusively....
...a Beatle/friend of Madonna, Gwyneth, Cameron et al/mother of four – she is Just Like Everyone Else, this seems to be going to extremes....
...strung along the bed of a canyon, near Jemez Pueblo, where the Jemez Indians live....
...of New York’s Village Voice....
...of Arts, as well as being appointed a Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government....
...It seems beyond belief the noise that a village of 360 can make....
...Walter et al....
...The London Tamil Sangam, one of Britain’s longest-established Tamil community centres, is entered through a nondescript doorway in Manor Park in the east of the capital....
...As a former investment banker, Augar tells the story of the disaster in the financial markets. What really happened at Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland et al? This gives you a clearer idea....
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