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  1. Arctic amusements and Northern delights

    Posted Dec 06th 2007, 12:00am by Edward Peters

    ... Snow, sky, saunas, Sibelius and Santa - Europe's winter wonderland invites visitors to enjoy its many cold-weather charms, writes Ed Peters When it comes to leisure, there's no business like snow business in the Finnish winter wonderland. The co ...

    http://www.scmp.com/article/618409/arctic-amusements-and-northern-delights
  2. Indian Summer

    Posted Dec 02nd 2007, 12:00am by Edward Peters

    ... Ed Peters Indian Summer by Alex von Tunzelmann Simon & Schuster, HK$330 India's independence was one of the pivotal events of the 20th century. Sixty years ago, the British - almost bankrupt after a long and costly world war - quit the subcontine ...

    http://www.scmp.com/article/617974/indian-summer
  3. Detours: High living

    Posted Nov 21st 2007, 12:00am by Edward Peters

    ... Ed Peters If Sydney is laid-back, then Katoomba - a 90-minute drive to the west in the heart of the Blue Mountains - is practically horizontal. For more than a century the town has acted as a hilltop retreat from the coastal capital of New South Wales, a ...

    http://www.scmp.com/article/616546/detours-high-living
  4. Strange and beautiful, just as Bjork would describe

    Posted Nov 16th 2007, 12:00am by Edward Peters

    ... Ed Peters Original, haunting and beautiful - it is not for nothing that singer, songwriter, actress and artist Bjork is the best-known voice of Iceland. And her appeal is reflected throughout the country, which gives new meaning to the phrase The Great Ou ...

    http://www.scmp.com/article/615785/strange-and-beautiful-just-bjork-would-describe
  5. Fusiliers, Eight Years with the Redcoats in America

    Posted Oct 21st 2007, 12:00am by Edward Peters

    ... Ed Peters Fusiliers, Eight Years with the Redcoats in America by Mark Urban Faber and Faber, HK$330 Americans are fond of pointing out to their British cousins that each exploding July 4 firework symbolises the snapping of a redcoated soldier's neck, ...

    http://www.scmp.com/article/612343/fusiliers-eight-years-redcoats-america
  6. Cavalier - A Story of Chivalry, Passion and Great Houses

    Posted Oct 14th 2007, 12:00am by Edward Peters

    ... Ed Peters Cavalier - A Story of Chivalry, Passion and Great Houses by Lucy Worsley Faber and Faber, HK$240 There are two great excitements to Lucy Worsley's Cavalier, a spirited portrait of not just the aristocrat William Cavendish, but of many who k ...

    http://www.scmp.com/article/611450/cavalier-story-chivalry-passion-and-great-houses
  7. The Terracotta Army - China's First Emperor and the Birth of a Nation

    Posted Oct 07th 2007, 12:00am by Edward Peters

    ... Ed Peters The Terracotta Army - China's First Emperor and the Birth of a Nation by John Man Bantam Press, HK$330 Visitors to the terracotta army outside Xian who don't read Chinese will be familiar with English-language notices strung up by the ...

    http://www.scmp.com/article/610530/terracotta-army-chinas-first-emperor-and-birth-nation
  8. Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire

    Posted Sep 23rd 2007, 12:00am by Edward Peters

    ... Ed Peters Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire by Judith Herrin Penguin, HK$330 Judith Herrin's carefully packaged history of Byzantium had an unlikely genesis. Two workmen knocked on the door of her office at King's College Londo ...

    http://www.scmp.com/article/608941/byzantium-surprising-life-medieval-empire
  9. Storm & Conquest: The Battle for the Indian Ocean, 1808-10

    Posted Sep 09th 2007, 12:00am by Edward Peters

    ... Ed Peters Storm & Conquest: The Battle for the Indian Ocean, 1808-10 by Stephen Taylor Faber & Faber, HK$330 History is often selective, and rarely more so than in school textbooks. The way Japan portrays its role in the second world war to second ...

    http://www.scmp.com/article/607257/storm-conquest-battle-indian-ocean-1808-10
  10. A journey fit for a maharaja

    Posted Aug 15th 2007, 12:00am by Edward Peters

    ... Luxury holidays sometimes divorce travellers from the very place they've supposedly come to see - erecting an artificial barrier that insulates visitors from the visited. But to board the opulent Palace on Wheels is to journey into the very heart of ...

    http://www.scmp.com/article/604227/journey-fit-maharaja

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