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Thursday, 13 June 2019

The water jump

A hundred years ago today, a large biplane lumbered into the air at St John’s, Newfoundland. Sixteen hours later, the Old an...

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Mike Robbins: Mike Robbins is the author of six books: The Lost Baggage of Silvia Guzmán (2014), a novel; The Nine Horizons (2014), a collection of travel pieces; Three Seasons, a trio of novellas; Even the Dead are Coming (2009), a memoir of life as a volunteer in Eastern Sudan; Crops and Carbon (2011), about agriculture and climate change; and a novella, Dog! (2015). He was born in London but has lived in many countries. (Pic: S. Ligabue)

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