... from his writings, see Travels of Ibn Battta (tr. by H. A. R. Gibb, 3 vol., rev. ed. 1958-71). Edward Gibbon English historian, author of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. His childhood was sickly, and he had little formal education but read enormously and omnivorously ... : Lady Thatcher's memoirs, this great intriguing gorget of a book, an artifact one holds in the hand--two hands, really--ever protective of its author's throat, or the range of reviews that have appeared in the British press, lengthy, opinionated, vituperative or self-serving statements that seem ...

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