It is 30 years since his travels round the moribund communist polities of south-eastern Europe prompted him to write Balkan Ghosts, a book that strongly influenced president Bill Clinton.
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A local authority worker who is the only hijab-wearer in her Sussex village said she had been impressed, during post-university travels round the Middle East, by the "tranquillity and stability" of people despite the difficulty of their lives.
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This is a council-run mobile playscheme that travels round the city providing access to toys, games, arts and crafts.
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Sir Arthur's mix of foreign tales and domestic farming comments continued the pattern set by George d'la Forge who alternated between reminiscences of his youth in Jersey, his life in North America and travels round the world, and commentary on news sent from Jersey. Since Sir Arthur's death, a roster of contributors have maintained the tradition of the weekly newspaper column.
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Tides are controlled mainly by the gravitational pull of the moon. About once a day the moon rotates about the earth, attracting as it travels the bulge of water called the high tide that also travels round the earth. There are actually two high tides, because the earth and moon, as a system, both rotate about a common centre of mass. This centre is two-thirds out from the centre of the earth, not at the centre of the earth.
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Adrian has also written AA guides to Venice, Brussels and Bruges and contributed to various Dorling Kindersley travel guides. In June 2017 Icon Press published two books based on Adrian's travels round the world "Rooms Of One's Own" focussed on places where great works of literature were written. Its sequel, "Rooms With A View" told the story of 50 grand hotels around the world. "Rooms of One's Own " was Highly Commended in the 2018 British Guild of Travel Writers Awards in the Best Narrative Travel Book category.
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Now awake, and apparently possessed by the ship's dead captain, Ashland dons a Kriegsmarine officer's uniform and announces that he is the captain. Marshall and Nick make a chilling discovery: the ship was once a Nazi prison ship, and the ghosts of its inmates and crew are still aboard. Upon visiting the chart room, they see that the map of the ship's course shows that it just travels round and round the Atlantic in huge circles. They both decide to escape, but are thwarted when the ship's lifeboats lower into the sea by themselves and drift away.
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He began broadcasting soon after leaving UEA, when he presented an arts magazine programme for the Arts Channel. A director of the independent producer, the Principal Film Company, his on-screen appearances have included BBC series The Tourist and The Thirties in Colour. Sattin has also presented a number of documentaries for radio including the Sunday Features Buying a Culture and Travels round my House with the writer Jan Morris, both for BBC Radio 3. Among the programmes he has presented for Radio 4 is Crazy for Love: Layla and the Mad Poet for Radio 4.
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In his business travels round the world, Falkner brought back antiquarian treasures of all kinds. After his retirement as chairman in 1921 he became Honorary Reader in paleography at the University of Durham, as well as Honorary Librarian to the Dean and Chapter Library of Durham Cathedral. Falkner fell in love with Durham and, although he spent his later years travelling frequently, he called Durham his home, living in the Divinity House (now the University Music School) on Palace Green in front of the cathedral from 1902 until his death. There is a commemorative plaque there, while his monument is in the south cloister of the cathedral.
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Is Coats's best known book, and is the biggest collection of Greek Myths for children ever written. The narrator is Atticus, a sandalmaker from Crete, who travels round Ancient Greece with Melissa the Donkey, telling the stories in the actual geographical locations where they are meant to have happened. Atticus's journey can be followed on a map, and the book is copiously illustrated in colour by Anthony Lewis. Atticus has also been published in Greek, Italian, Hebrew and Serbo-Croat, as well as being recorded on CD by Simon Russell Beale. Junior Education chose it as Book of the Month and included it in 100 Best Books of 2002, calling it ‘storytelling at its most compelling’.
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The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (now more commonly rendered as "The Further adventures of Robinson Crusoe") is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in 1719. Just as in its significantly more popular predecessor, Robinson Crusoe (1719), the first edition credits the work's fictional protagonist Robinson Crusoe as its author. It was published under the considerably longer original title: The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe; Being the Second and Last Part of His Life, And of the Strange Surprising Accounts of his Travels Round three Parts of the Globe. Although intended to be the last Crusoe tale, the novel is followed by a non-fiction book involving Crusoe by Defoe entitled Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe: With his Vision of the Angelick World (1720).
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At the end of the Isle of Wight stay Steve Hillage left the group to pursue his academic studies, later rising to fame as a '70s guitar hero. Uriel continued as an organ trio and fell in with a management company who forced a name change of 'The Egg' on the band. After signing with Decca in mid-1969 the band evolved into a hard-working live unit who won many fans on their travels round the UK. Under the musical leadership of Mont Campbell, short songs began to give way to long complex instrumentals influenced as much by Stravinsky as by the odd time signatures of Soft Machine. Psychedelia continued to loom large in Egg's consciousness, and when the group were let loose in a recording studio for the first time they revelled in the new sonic possibilities it offered, creating the deranged soundscape "Boilk"' on their first eponymous LP. Egg and Decca parted company after the release of their second album The Polite Force, considered by many to be one of the finest prog albums ever recorded.
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