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with virtually no money. He quickly began to rebuild the family fortune, becoming a wealthy stockbroker, going on to be one of the three founding members of Loewen
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The Last
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The Power of Paper: A History, a
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Sindh Revisited: A Journey in the Footsteps of Captain Sir
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Ridley, Jane (4 January 2014). "The food of love". Books.
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family of Dutch and Indian origin, Ondaatje first went to
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Woolf in Ceylon: An Imperial Journey in the Shadow of
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The Glenthorne Cat and other amazing leopard stories
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Leopard in the Afternoon — An Africa Tenting Safari
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