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‘If we give nature a chance, it can and will recover,’ says Beatrice Forshall

Shaikh Ayaz

Beatrice Forshall’s engravings of the natural world revolve around the conservation of species. The artist-author in conversation with

The World: A Family History /
The World: A Family History
Simon Sebag Montefiore
‘I tried to think of a way to put the human back into a world history,’ says Simon Sebag Montefiore

In two volumes, Simon Sebag Montefiore chronicles the world’s great families. The historian speaks about combining the span of world history with the grit of human biography

Searching for Ashoka: Questing for a Buddhist King from India to Thailand /
Searching for Ashoka: Questing for a Buddhist King from India to Thailand
Nayanjot Lahiri
On the Ashoka Trail

Nayanjot Lahiri travels through Asia to explore the different images of the Mauryan emperor. The author in conversation with Open

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