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...Quite what to read was an easy decision: The Worst Journey in the World, Apsley Cherry-Garrard’s 1922 account of Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s calamitous 1910-13 expedition to reach the South Pole....
...However, the presence of man is nicely suggested by the jungle council held at a tech scrapheap, or the village’s pylons and utility poles mirroring the forest trees....
...Robert ArmstrongNo sensible person would touch that stock with a 10-foot pole. Elaine MooreWell, you can argue that’s also because of who owns it, right?...
...“Be vigilant,” Pole warns. “They are less likely to go for cotton or linen but it helps to learn their life cycles.”...
...In that sense, his motivating force brings to mind another travel book of recent years: Waypoints by Robert Martineau....
...Move in close and (if you read French) you can follow a surreal rail journey from Moscow to Paris via China and the North Pole....
...I am doing little justice to a remarkable tale, but after a century these transcriptions were unearthed by a remarkable Canadian poet and scholar called Robert Bringhurst, who spent well over a decade teaching...
...Let us know your thoughts, on India or anything else: robert.armstrong@ft.com and ethan.wu@ft.com....
...(The antique textiles dealer Katharine Pole has also found an abolitionist toile, dating from the 1830s, depicting the slave trade)....
...In neighbouring Slovakia, former premier and Ukraine sceptic Robert Fico won parliamentary elections at the weekend and will try to form a ruling coalition....
...Redbird IMI is in pole position to take over the Telegraph and the Spectator magazine after agreeing to pay down the money owed to Lloyds by the Barclay family, the former owners....
...What to watch today German economy minister Robert Habeck meets officials in Israel and Palestine. EU employment and social affairs ministers meet....
...It was accompanied by a news ticker that read: “The opposition’s proposals for Poles: worms instead of meat.”...
...Former Slovak prime minister Robert Fico is aiming for a political comeback in elections due to take place on Sunday, and his Ukraine-sceptic, Russia-friendly stance is likely to place him in Hungarian prime...
...But as our chief political commentator Robert Shrimsley notes, nothing is certain....
...The writer is editorial director and a columnist at Le Monde Donald Tusk returned to Brussels yesterday as “a proud Pole”, “a proud European” and Poland’s likely next prime minister, having unseated his...
...You know, it looks like they are kind of in pole position here, to mix my metaphors, to take back control of the Senate, hold on to the House....
...Economics minister Robert Habeck is expected to attend the opening. India: The Chandrayaan lunar lander is scheduled to touch down on the Moon’s South Pole....
...The brand’s furniture is equally inventive: there’s a desk-shelf taking the form of floor-to-ceiling poles intersected by shelves; and pedestals “evoking the delicate refinement of a chess pawn”....
...Robert Fico: Slovak bogeyman or blusterer?...
...A set of Lunn’s wooden skis and poles are suspended on the wall....
...Yes, the Lib Dems are in pole position in the seats....
...Robert Frank got there first, treating it as a poetic motif and surrounding it with language, irony and critique. Seeing Frank’s photos, Ruscha wrote, “was like opening a book laced with dynamite”....
...Its evocations of the city were lyrical and ominous: “Down pavings rent with ruin, the slow cataclysm of neglect, the wires that belly pole to pole across the constellations hung with kitestring, with bolos...
...He has a potential ally in Robert Fico, the populist prime minister of Slovakia who returned to power last year and has voiced pro-Russian leanings....
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