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Goodbye Robert Hughes

Published August 7th, 2012

Goodbye Robert Hughes
Author of The Fatal Shore (A Longitude Favorite), an essential portrait of Barcelona, the gorgeously written, personal Rome (published just last year) among his many books on history and art, Robert Hughes died yesterday in the Bronx at age 74 after a long illness.  Originally from Australia (you could tell in his speech after all
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Adieu, Lonesome George

Published June 26th, 2012

Adieu, Lonesome George
Sadly, a conservation icon is no more. Keeper and Galapagos Park Warden Fausto Llerena found Lonesome George dead in his corral at the Galapagos Park Headquarters in Puerto Ayora on Sunday morning. Estimated to be 100 years old, Lonesome George seemed to be just fine, apparently on his way across the pen when he died. 
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Patrick Leigh Fermor Dies at 96

Published June 10th, 2011

Patrick Leigh Fermor Dies at 96
Dashing war hero, bon vivant, charming author of a string of sublime travel books, the gentlemanly Anglo-Irish Patrick Leigh Fermor died on June 10 at age 96. In her introduction to Leigh Fermor’s A Time of Gifts, Jan Morris, without too much hyperbole, called him “infinitely more than a travel writer, also a memoirist, a
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Eva Ibbotson 1925-2010

Published November 19th, 2010

Eva Ibbotson 1925-2010
The celebrated Austrian-British author of The Star of Kazan and many other books for children and adults died at home in Newcastle on 20 October 2010. A delightful young adult adventure, The Star of Kazan twists and turns through Ibbotson’s fin-de-siecle Vienna. Annika, a foundling taken in by a household of eccentric professors and kind
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