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The MARCH 2019 NEWSLETTER is available free for  download. Readers can access the Newsletter free at http://www.martinanicolls.net The 31-page feature for MARCH 2019  is: RIVER SEINE, PARIS Map – the region Map – Paris Map – left bank, right bank Map – the bridges of Paris The Seine Lots of photographs MARTINA NICOLLS http://www.martinanicolls.net http://martinasblogs.blogspot.com https://www.facebook.com/Martina-Nicolls- მარტინა - ნიკოლსი -1450496988529988/timeline/ MARTINA NICOLLS   is an international aid and development consultant, and the  author   of:-  Similar But Different in the Animal Kingdom   (2017), The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan Curse (2009).

MARTINA NICOLLS   is an international aid and development consultant, and the  author   of:-  Similar But Different in the Animal Kingdom   (2017), The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan Curse (2009).

MARTINA NICOLLS is an international aid and development consultant, and the  author of:-  Similar But Different in the Animal Kingdom (2017), The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan Curse (2009).

MARTINA NICOLLS is an international aid and development consultant, and the  author of:-  Similar But Different in the Animal Kingdom (2017), The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan Curse (2009).

MARTINA NICOLLS   is an international aid and development consultant, and the  author   of:-  Similar But Different in the Animal Kingdom   (2017), The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan Curse (2009).

True Grit (1968) is set in the 1870s in Arkansas, America. The narrator is 14-year-old Mattie Ross.  Twenty-five-year old bachelor Tom Chaney had just shot and killed her father Frank Ross, and had fled the scene, headed for the Indian territory, and joined by a band of outlaws.  The enraged teenager wants revenge for her family, her mother, and brother Little Frank. She intends to kill Tom if the law ‘fails to do so.’ She encounters people who try to belittle her, which of course makes her madder. There are many people who want to collect the bounty for Tom Chaney – it’s a lot of money.  Matttie enlists the help of ‘old’ one-eyed U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn – the forty-year-old with true grit – to find the killer.  Sergeant of Texas Rangers, LaBoeuf, offers his assistance too, and so does Yarnell Poindexter, born of free parents, who has the block of land near the Ross farm and has known Mattie for all her years. Mattie, Rooster and LaB...

MARTINA NICOLLS   is an international aid and development consultant, and the  author   of:-  Similar But Different in the Animal Kingdom   (2017), The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan Curse (2009).