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...By adopting a “workaround mindset”, Savaget writes, we can “turn our ‘unknown unknowns’ into ‘known unknowns’ . . ....
...Edited excerpts from the book proposals of the three finalists for the 2019 Bracken Bower Prize, backed by the Financial Times and McKinsey....
...They share ideas on how an unknown author should approach literary agents and talk about what makes a book proposal stand out....
...The picture’s sensuality and vividness invite close, even lascivious examination, but as the pure in spirit move towards the surface, they notice the bower bedecked with words of virtue, including, just...
...She includes the usual charming quotes about flowers in Shakespeare’s plays, from Titania’s bower to mad Ophelia’s bouquet, but does not consider the dozens of Shakespeare gardens which they have inspired...
...The book will add more anecdotes to the analytical research that underpinned the Bracken Bower proposal....
...But in that shining, buried bower lurks the promise of blessed reunion. Gober is a master of misdirection....
...Commercial space travel is a step into the unknown for them; it’s the next big thing.”...
...Isn’t the whole point of embarking on a relationship (personal and otherwise) about peeling back the layers, being pleasantly surprised, finding yourself charmed by the unknown, and working hard to unravel...
...Eight years after privatisation, Inpex is still something of an unknown quantity. Almost all of its 73 assets in 26 countries are small stakes in projects controlled by other companies....
...Fu, who died in 1965, is revered in his homeland but essentially unknown in the US....
...Scott starved and froze to death beside his friends, Henry Bowers and Edward Wilson, and a controversial legend was born....
...Andre DArcangelo, unknown...
...Dudley’s landscape and garden were enhanced by arbours; Cecil designed a bower of bliss in the form of a maze garden surrounding a mount with a statue of Venus at the summit....
...The biggest unknown, however, is what impact a sharper than expected US slowdown would have on emerging markets, particularly in Asia....
...The Ends of the Earth Edited by Elizabeth Kolbert and Francis Spufford Granta Books £25, 288 pages FT bookshop price: £20 A hundred years ago the Arctic and Antarctic were vast blank spaces, unknown and...
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