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“... been exterminated, that we were far beyond any hope of assistance, that even our whereabouts were unknown, I found wholly satisfying.’ Almost inevitably, Thesiger now became one of ‘the Blues who ruled the Blacks’ in the Sudan. In the Political Service, scornful of desk work, he was for ever on the trek, seizing every chance to shoot lion as the vermin ...”

“... Boule, spent six months on rivers and canals throughout France.On his return to Paris he began, unknown to Tigy, an affair with Boule which was to last longer than any other in his life. A new, larger boat, the Ostrogoth, was commissioned from a builder in Fécamp; on it the trio spent the next three years and on it, while moored in Delfzijl, in Holland, in ...”

“... are happier if they are labelled ‘meaningless questions’; ufologists explain every unknown in terms of ‘alien visitors’. Sealing off unproductive lines of reasoning with labels or slogans may be a sensible trick to prevent the mind wasting precious computational time. Mind is a unity, and cosmos is a unity. Two unities is one too many. It ...”

“... after all, the stakes of the letter are political even though its actual content remains unknown. In fact, the staying power of literature must arise from the way in which both of these descriptions of it must be true. The Oxford Book of Letters does not claim to offer a theory of literature while Post Scripts does just that: the juxtaposition of the ...”

“... justification for a strike led by attack helicopters on an arms dump in Mogadishu which left ‘an unknown number’ of Somalis dead. On closer inspection the incident revealed just the kind of queasy anomaly about Operation Restore Hope that saturation media coverage a week or two earlier had failed to expose. The weapons in the dump were impounded after the ...”

“... propelled into the big league.’ He delighted in a test for Oklahoma! made by Rod Steiger and the unknown James Dean (though Dean could not sing well enough to get the part): he has been very appreciative of Method acting. That is why Montgomery Clift played Private Prewitt – though not an obvious choice as a soldier or a boxer. (He ...”

“... to investigate the sexual revolution both collectively, through the testimony of these numerous unknown foot-soldiers, and individually, for their champion was a famously determined self-publicist and legitimator of her own desires. Disappointingly, however, we are once again given little more than the story of Stopes’s romantic, litigious and literary ...”

“... come back. After his death his wife completed two unfinished novels. His pottery remained almost unknown until, in 1952, the Victoria and Albert Museum held its Exhibition of Victorian and Edwardian Decorative Arts. There Morris, Burges, Ashbee, De Morgan and the rest of the handful for whom – Morris thought – the museum had been created in the first ...”

“... has travelled further than she could have imagined, and the location of many of her books is still unknown: 235 volumes have been identified so far, but more are being found all the time, thanks mainly to Wolfreston’s annotations.*The four-act life story of Wolfreston’s books – accumulation, stasis, scattering, reconstruction – is typical of many ...”

“... their idols’ birthdays. Kris Wu, a major celebrity among Chinese millennials but virtually unknown to anyone else, suddenly swept to the top of the charts just before his birthday last year. It turned out that Wu’s fans had been preparing the coup for months; it’s called ‘slaughtering the charts’. They raised a huge fund to buy as many US ...”

“... oohs and aahs from visitors. Not least because the curators have plumped for poetry. They bow to unknown unknowns, declaring in the entrance lobby that the monument remains a ‘mystery’. An audio system immerses you in birds warbling and waters rushing as you turn into the first main gallery and are introduced to those hunter-gatherers who, from around ...”

“... like an ordinary local move . . . It seemed, to parents like mine, like a gigantic step into the unknown, away from all their familiar haunts, free of all that was troubling and dark. It was a step towards some sort of light, and such moves, even in small countries, can seem monumental. The moves seem monumental, but they are radically incomplete. Two ...”

“... is my spiritual home,’ Deedes thought as he accepted. The Daily Express called him ‘the most unknown minister of all time’. Although a journalist, Deedes was not ‘a slick or pushful chappie’, the paper said. ‘His column chronicling the daily doings of clubmen and canons was about as slick as a Victorian railway carriage . . . Mr Deedes is ...”

“... seamen, coolies, amahs, syces, green-eyed idols and fiendish poisons leached from tropical plants unknown to European science. At 11 I embarked on my first love affair, falling hopelessly for Kim. Never have I yearned so much to inhabit someone else’s skin as I did Kim’s. Even now, past sixty, I can catch him flitting through some dappled interior and ...”

“... were accepted by the Atlantic. In 1860, he was asked to write a campaign biography for the largely unknown Abraham Lincoln. Drawing on his own boyhood memories as well as the facts of Lincoln’s life, Howells made the story of a young man’s rise from the frontier into a mythic tale. With the money he earned from the Lincoln biography, Howells travelled to ...”