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...His first whale postmortem was a 15-metre-long fin whale that had washed up in Devon in 2010....
...Lauriane Bonnet folded her arms. The AMF prosecutor’s patience was beginning to fray....
...Two hippos duck beneath the liquid brown silt of an ox-bowed river channel....
...A rifle papier-mâchéd in American cash with bullets filled with blood, heroin, gold and diamonds....
...Demir’s Ankara office is filled with models of Turkish-made planes, helicopters and tanks....
...This 25-mile-long island is just a 15-minute flight north-east from Belize City, the country’s international gateway, but San Pedro, capital of Ambergris Caye proves hard to love....
...There is a river god on the run and he is yearning for some sun....
...The crack of a rifle shot echoes across the valley followed by the beating of drums....
...He said he was averaging 15 a day. A quick calculation later on suggested that 30 would be more accurate....
...On the other side of the river two or three Muslims with rifles had seen their plight and opened fire. It was one of the first cases of Muslims in the region fighting back....
...She believes that drugs are packed in among other contraband and ferried across the river from the club. She is certain that arms, too, are smuggled across. “Who’s monitoring this? Nobody!...
...HISTORY Compiled by Christian Tyler Thames: Sacred River By Peter Ackroyd Chatto & Windus £25, 490 pages FT bookshop price: £20 The view from the river changes everything....
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