Short passages for reading, drawn from history, legend, poetry and fiction.
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The guardian of a lonely signalbox recounts a truly haunting experience.
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© Joachim Huber, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
David Livingstone relives the historic moment when he became the first European to see the Victoria Falls.
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Four years before the bloody American civil war, Dr David Livingstone proposed a peaceful way to rid the world of slavery.
© Derek Harper, Geograph. Licence: CC-BY-SA 2.0.
David Balfour hopes his crusty uncle Ebenezer is beginning to soften towards him.
© Țetcu Mircea Rareș, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.
Three highly decorated officers in the Roman Army fall victim to a campaign to discredit them.
© Colin Smith, Geograph. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
Just as Richard Hannay was steeling himself to report failure in the hunt for a German agent, a stranger’s eye caught his own.