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Travels to the remaining outposts of the british empire. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. Simon winchester studied geology at oxford and has written for conde nast traveler, smithsonian, and national geographic. It details his travels to each of the remaining dependencies of the british empire and was first published in 1985 in britain by hodder and stoughton under the title outposts and in the united states by prentice hall as the sun never sets. It was a prophetic remark, for it was to gibraltar, and to the old circular harbour at rosia at the southern tip of the peninsula, that the admirals body was carried after trafalgar.
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