Composed for the most part in loose, unrhymed couplets, it's the story of Zuleika, a Sudanese immigrant girl growing up in a far western outpost of the Roman Empire: third-century London.
I checked myself in at the Argyll Arms – a former hunting lodge built by the eponymous duke – did my spot of Seminal Moments in the History of Wings location bagging, and went out exploring this far flung outpost of civilisation.
This free-verse novel, composed mainly in unrhymed couplets, tells of a Sudanese immigrant girl growing up in third-century London, when it was a far western outpost of the Roman Empire.
Facing sudden change -- proposals for a slender 31-story apartment tower by the French architect Jean Nouvel as well as a shorter, bulkier hotel by Stephen B. Jacobs -- the residents of this far west outpost of Greenwich Village have embraced their own distinct argument for preserving its character.
Having lured the legendary former Real Madrid and Barcelona player to his far western outpost of Premier League football, can he keep Laudrup past the end of his two-year contract?
After spending the past years exploring Russia theoretically, I had decided to use my newly found free time to travel from Russia's far eastern outpost of Vladivostok, across seven time zones, to Moscow.
Maybe this was a far-flung outpost of the European populations, the occupant a Neanderthal Robinson Crusoe.
Oslo For hundreds of years, Oslo - or Christiania as it used to be known - was a far-flung outpost of the Swedish and Danish empires.
In June this year, the SEC fined Andersen $7m for "improper professional conduct", its first such case for more than 20 years.This was not mere aberrant behaviour by some far-flung outpost of the 85,000-strong Andersen empire.
He went to school in an old cinema, a far-flung outpost of the same church school that produced two Nobel prize winners in Seamus Heaney and John Hume, and where Brian Friel and Seamus Deane were also "taught lessons in fear," as McGuinness puts it.
