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from international trade to the tensions between native Egyptians and incoming Greeks

and the joy I had in counting their letters and unravelling their arabesques as if they had all been of beaten gold - as many of them were - cannot be told

captivating and important – and the best book I’ve read this year’ ANDREA WULF More praise for Richard Powers: 'Powers has extraordinary gifts as a writer' GUARDIAN 'Impressively precise in its scientific conjectures

we need language and the grounded confidence to both tell our stories

Written by television presenter and president of the RSPB

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