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    The grand tour

    Feb 09, 2020 2 minutes
    by PETER CALDER

    n 1890-91, an English nurse named Kate Marsden travelled to Yakutsk in eastern Siberia, a journey of about 10,000km, in the hope of gathering a local herb that she thought might be a cure for leprosy. She was already, by the standards of any age, a remarkable woman: her achievements included a stint

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