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~ Douglas Adams

"Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple."

~ Dr. Suess

"Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass."

~ Anton Chekhov

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Author Profile: Anton Walker

Anton Walker, Image Courtesy of Jacana Media

History . As a school boy Anton Walker traveled with his father to India and Nepal in 1984 to view the tigers and one-horned Indian rhinos in the wild. Walker largely grew up at Lapalala Wilderness where his parents assisted the late Dale Parker in the establishment of the reserve which has become an important […]

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The Banned Work of Salman Rushdie

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I have discussed the issue of banned books before, and while it is a terribly subjective thing to ban a book, it is also, in this blogger’s opinion, mostly a misguided thing. One of the prime examples of an unnecessarily banned book is Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses, a book banned in several countries for challenging core […]

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