| Extract one.
"The Haven where Rhino can roam in peace"
- The Times, 1996
"Munghai started the engine and we set off
uphill, pitching and jolting at less than walking pace on a track scoured to the rock by
the rain, diverting around a roadblock of recently elephant-amputated branches. Then we
reached the place.
There before us was the tragic, prehistoric sensation of Africa. Not
one, but five drowsy white rhinos, squeezed into every spare square inch of shade. As if
the sun were their only problem. To the poacher their horns represent the most valuable
animal product on earth. 300,000 dollars, cushioned on the red earth before us."
Extract 2.
"Following the Beatles - on Foot." - The
Sunday Times Magazine, June 1989
"We are leaning against the very post box where
a Chelsea pensioner said to a television camera: "The Beatles? I love 'em. God bless
'em."
Extract 3.
"A Walk along the Thames Path",
(Michael Joseph, 1990)
"It was a slight beginning. A wide, low
shouldered valley and the faint memory of water, long ago flowed away. A thousand
dandelion clocks marking time past or time to come.
At the stile, a scrum of Fresian cows loiter indifferently. "Obstruct you? We always
stand here." An ash sprawls a branch out overhead, like a giant athlete straining for
the tape. But this is the beginning of the course. In the shelter of a high spinney of
hawthorn and sycamore stands a plain, marble obelisk. "The Conservators of the River
Thames, 1857-1974. This stone was placed here to mark the source of the river
Thames."
Extract 4.
S.W.Turkey, 1997 - commissioned by The Times.
"Up on the the quarter mile circuit of rampart
there was not a single contemporary detail visible to jam the resonances of a potent event
associated with this place.
Out of the numberless sparkles on the bay below we conjured up phantom boats of the Greek
and Persian fleet standing in battle order in August 394 BC, before they routed the
Spartans off Cnidus (present day Knidos) just around the headland.
We walked around the great defensive stones, wondering at the unsullied enormity of this
place, then gingerly retraced our steps down to the water's edge."
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