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BESTSELLERS This week: the top-selling Cadogan guides in 2005 Clover Stroud looks back at Afghanistan and is dazzled by the Great Plains
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"Our hike through Nuristan was a very special trip into the past.
Here we encountered not ruins from an historical past but life in a
pre-historical epoch. Many villages that we entered had never seen a
machine. There existed no vehicles, no wheels, no police and no
radios. No axe or saw had even disturbed the virgin, light-filled
forests through which we walked as through bright cathedrals. No
human foot had left its track. Until a few decades before, an archaic
religion using...
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The Sunday Telegraph London
; EXTRACT "Our hike through Nuristan was a very special trip into the past. Here we encountered not ruins from an historical past but life in a pre-historical epoch. Many villages that we entered had never seen a machine. There existed no vehicles, no wheels, no police and no radios. No axe or saw
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FROM MOTORCYCLES TO BEER... HOW BRITS PAY OVER THE ODDS; But families over in Europe enjoy a cut-price bonanza.(Features)
Sunday Mirror (London, England)
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stat's life: Countries with the highest gross national income.(News)
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RIPPED OFF LEFT, RIGHT AND CENTRE; Yesterday we exposed how we are paying pounds 1700 a year too much for food. Today we reveal that Brits pay over the odds for almost everything else as well.(Features)
Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
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Stat's life.(News)
Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
; Top ten car makers by value of annual exports 1 Germany pounds 52.6bn 2 Japan pounds 39.3bn 3 Canada pounds 18.2bn 4 France pounds 17.3bn 5 Belgium pounds 14bn 6 Spain pounds 13.2bn 7 United States pounds 12.5bn 8 Mexico pounds 7.2bn 9 Italy pounds 4.6bn 10 Sweden pounds 3.7bn
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THE WAVE OF DEATH: DISASTER DONORS.(News)
The Mirror (London, England)
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