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...But in its gripping account of Mitchel’s audacious escape in the outback, where he evades capture up to the very last minute, its models are the adventure novels of Sir Walter Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson...
...What he really wanted to be, according to Hendry, was “the Robert Louis Stevenson of the modern age”....
...McMillian asks, and Stevenson flickers with self-doubt....
...For us, just as for Stevenson’s readers, good negative role models are in short supply....
...In the front room of William Boyd’s Chelsea house, expensive drawings line cream walls and a bust of his fellow Scottish writer Walter Scott adds a faintly aristocratic touch....
...After Mehew, it was no longer possible to dismiss Stevenson as a fantasist in the windswept tradition of Walter Scott. The correspondence prickles with racy vulgarisms (“fuckstress”, “boghouse”)....
...Court, who was promoted to head of global institutional distribution in April 2016, was at the heart of allegations of favouritism at Guggenheim due to her close personal relationship with founder Mark Walter...
...“In what ways,” he asks, “did the Union curb or constrain the genius of Burns, Scott or Stevenson?” There are important exceptions to the nationalist literary surge....
...In the US, the concept was late to catch on, first used when the syndicated columnist Walter Lippmann called for an injection of Realpolitik into the foreign policy shield of the American republic during...
...Stevenson of South Africa was virtually cleaned out in the first hour, notably placing a new work by Barthélémy Toguo, “Human Feeding” (around €60,000), as well as selling a photograph by Viviane Sassen...
...Think about extending your lease Leonora Walters, personal finance editor, investors Chronicle Do you own a leasehold property? How many years remain on your lease?...
...To gain a capital conviction of Walter McMillian, a hard-working, semi-literate black man, for the murder of an 18-year-old white woman, the prosecutor put up three witnesses who lied under oath; one was...
...He studied history at the University of Edinburgh and did a PhD on Walter Scott....
...Sir Walter Scott is on the front and the Brig o’Doon on the back. It promises to pay the bearer five pounds, signed by order of the board by Dennis Stevenson as Governor....
...I was the only boy I knew who liked Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Master of Ballantrae better than Treasure Island; Arthur Conan Doyle’s The White Company rather than Sherlock....
...Even the actor Juliet Stevenson, who admits that her own life is really rather nice, complains of the poverty of the roles she now plays....
...Polar Capital Technology, managed by the irrepressible Ben Rogoff, and RCM Technology, managed by the laconic Walter Price, would be my top choices....
...Peers such as Michael Page, SThree and Robert Walters have all seen shares rise strongly so far this year, something analysts have attributed to growing optimism about global economic recovery....
...Look at amazing characters such as Wall Street legend Walter Schloss (who died in February, after a lifetime in the value investing game) and you tend to find a relentless focus on company fundamentals....
...The astronauts included Walter Cunningham, who was the command pilot of Apollo 7, and Charlie Duke, the 10th man on the moon....
...Stevenson-Yang explains it could be rather tricky: If the WMPs stood alone, the banks could just buy their assets and close them down....
...From the reservoir’s dam head you can’t miss the Scots baronial tower of Bonaly House, where Sir Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson and other members of a 19th-century literary group known as the Speculative...
...Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography, by Walter Isaacson, Little, Brown, RRP£25 Rushed into print only weeks after the death of the Apple founder, Isaacson’s book sets out to be the definitive history of...
...As Graham’s disciple, US fund manager Walter Schloss, observed a few years back: “Ben had it easier than we did because there were a lot of cheap stocks around in his day.I find it hard to believe that he...
...“The majority of these new funds are blind – ie, have no existing portfolio,” warns Robert Walters, investment director at BDO Stoy Hayward Investment Management, a wealth management firm....
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