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...His legacy endures; the turf, daub and wattle hut where he slept on a bed of stone later became a Benedictine abbey....
...“There are thousands of ways in which Grossman does not fit with Putin’s Russia,” says Robert Chandler, who has translated much of his writing into English....
...Only one was in English: Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island. The prisoners drew lots for the privilege of reading it first, and quickly read it to pieces....
...A ruined wattle-and-daub hut sits outside of Caetés, in Brazil’s northeastern state of Pernambuco, surrounded by small farms. The bucolic scene belies the area’s history of harsh droughts....
...The mass of buildings between the grand houses were mostly made of timber, wattle and daub....
...There’s a deer park, a two-acre walled kitchen garden, sage-and-wattle-coloured interiors peppered with frameless portraits, a greenhouse-restaurant spilling on to a light-soaked terrace, velvet sofas, stuffed...
...They would have filled in the external walls with wattle and daub – a mixture of straw, clay and horsehair that gave substance to the walls and insulated the buildings....
...We talk to the station manager’s wife, Maurise Roberts. “At first we thought, What will tourists want to see here?...
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