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Deeper than Indigo, by Jenny Balfour-Paul – book review: When two lives collide
The Independent On their own, Machell's adventures would be fascinating: a young man, an excellent writer, with a mysterious unnamed “defect” disqualifying him for the Army life of his brothers, he set off on a merchant ship at 16 in 1840 and travelled widely through … |
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