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CHAPTER ONE'I COULD HAVE AN EACH-WAY CHANCE IN THE FIRST, AND I MAY WIN THE THIRD'Frankié Dettoriív/ derek heeney rose early on 28 September 1996. As a lad in Michael Stoute's famous Freemason Lodge stables in Newmarket, he was responsible for looking after the főurai year-old bay-coloured...

INTRODUCTIONLeft The 'foot' maze at Conholt Park, Hampshire, England. Above 'Sea Change' sculpture by George Cutts in Hat Hill Copse, Sussex, England.My aim in writing this book has been to gather together and illustrate outstanding examples of what is new, interesting and likely to stand the test...

AUTHOR'S PREFACE My experience working in the Grameen Bank has given me faith; an unshakeable faith in the creativity of human beings. It leads me to believe that humans are not born to suffer the misery of hunger and poverty. They suffer now as they did in the past because we turn our heads...

ForewordI first visited the Villa d'Este 30 years ago, to be entranced, as travellers have been since the i6th century, by the drama of its cascades and fountains. Reading Visions of Arcadia has reawakened inspiring memories and made me long to return to this garden, and to many others: Isola...