Perhaps not since the felling of America's vast forests in the 19th century, […] has the world seen such a spectacular environmental change. The consequences for Arctic ecosystems will be swingeing.

Fluorescence determinations were performed with a LS55 fluorospectrometer (Perkin-Elmer, Waltham, USA) with excitation at 360 nm and emission detection at 430 nm with a 10 nm bandwidth.

Without letters of marque from him we all are but intruders in his domain. Which other autobiographist will ever have material equal to that which he has surrendered so spontaneously to his own pen?

What else, you tell me, can make a group of young men from various backgrounds, educational levels and races doing their National Service (aka Army) and communicating on a sama-sama wavelength?