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...Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World by David Van Reybrouck, translated by David Colmer and David McKay, Bodley Head, £30, 656 pages Alec Russell is the FT’s foreign editor This review...
...This was true for many years of the wines at Hamilton Russell, Hemel’s pioneering wine estate, which was founded by Tim Hamilton Russell in 1975 when he was chairman of ad agency J Walter Thompson in Johannesburg...
...Camps include the shores of a glacial lake, and the edge of the Russell Glacier....
...It was an instant hit, and when his father Walter came to help out one summer, he enjoyed the experience so much that he decided to bring the idea back to his hometown of Portland....
...“Van Morrison was a pale white knuckle of a man,” she said. He answered her questions “with a hulking and impenetrable flatness”....
...This is meant to dematerialise the building at night but to me is eerily reminiscent of a striped camp uniform....
...A short flight in a Cessna Caravan and we are deposited at Wilderness Safaris’ Linkwasha Camp, a luxury tented safari camp in one of Hwange’s most game-rich areas....
...In 1915 Walter Lewerny wrote “heartiest Xmas and New Year’s Wishes” on a card from Ruhleben camp (west of Berlin) with a photograph of a bleak row of huts surrounded by barbed wire; on another, sent from...
...But none by sabre or by shotFell half so flat as Walter Scott.” However bad the poem, it sold well and stoked interest....
...Renaissance right up to Rubens and Van Dyck....
...Walter Scott would have enjoyed this greatly....
...His ANC generation has a mythical status: Mandela, Oliver Tambo, Walter Sisulu and so many more....
...Mr van Nieuwenhuijzen believes commodities simply do not fit into the current investment zeitgeist....
...He looked rather disappointed when I said I wanted to float between both camps. This city tends to work best for you if you know which side you are on, he said....
...The hearths were open, with no grates so that logs spilt carelessly out – a memory of those camp fires....
...In After the Fall, Walter Laqueur, the distinguished US historian and essayist, refers fleetingly to Miliband’s speech....
...Details Lucia van der Post travelled to Nairobi with British Airways. Singita Explore costs $1,300 per person per night on a fully inclusive basis....
...A grinning Gil instantly picks up the guitar part, joined by the bass-baritone croon of José van Dam....
...Van Gogh Up Close, edited by Cornelia Homburg, Yale University Press, RRP£60, 306 pages We know some but not all of the many paintings where Van Gogh zooms in at a close-up, cropping, flattening, experimenting...
...Few other managers have a foot in both camps, Vanguard and State Street Global Advisors being the main examples....
...Alec Russell is the FT’s world news editor and the former southern Africa bureau chief....
...Bertrand Russell is the star in this rich, colourful and surprising tale....
...This most recent quarter to date you see actually the Russell 2000 off, whereas the SMP 500 and the DOW up....
...Sri Lanka has now accelerated the resettlement of displaced Tamil civilians, allowing them to come and go from the camps from December 1 and promising to close the camps by the end of January....
...Meanwhile, one of this year’s most popular reads has been Russell Banks’s The Reserve , a novel about a Rockefeller-esque scandal up on a lake....
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