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"ref": "1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 38",
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"ref": "2023 July 4, Paula Cocozza, “I was lost in the desert for nine and a half days – and sustained myself with raw bats and urine”, in The Guardian, →ISSN",
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"text": "Climbing one on his second day lost, Prosperi spotted a disturbance to the view. “I was convinced it was somebody’s home or a holy man’s shrine.” But the shrine, or marabout, was empty. The only holy man was in a sarcophagus.",
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