"Hope tiptoed back into the world, armed with sachets of benign bacteria," writes Nigel Calder is his new book The Green Machines (Putnam, 1986). It crept back into a world tottering on the brink of ...
Trusted travel journalist Simon Calder has a few famous relatives, including father Nigel Calder and grandfather Lord Peter ...
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