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In Bhutan arrows whistle through the silent air. Citizens, dressed by law in medieval robes, saunter past buildings, constructed by law in traditional fortress style. There is no television yet in the Hidden Kingdom, and airlines first arrived during the '80s. Last year the country saw scarcely 1,500 tourists...
All this makes the mosquito a formidable adversary, one that has caused no end of trouble for human beings. Malarial mosquitoes, some historians think, contributed to the fall of ancient Greece. Europeans of medieval times were tormented by the insect Chaucer knew as the midge; the English word mosquito, from...
On top of the medieval lies Prague's socialist layer, the residue of neglect and cynicism, the peeling paint, the shop shelves half empty from the day before yesterday when the Bohemians and Moravians and Slovaks were under occupation -- a nation landbound and Lenin-bound as well.
Above all that, quickening the surfaces now, is the newest thing, a lively entrepreneurial city -- Western glitz and electronics and hard money flowing in; the platzes swarming with backpackers; McDonald's opening a second branch, this one on Wenceslas Square, where the "velvet revolution" transpired in November 1989. The new...
The author sketches characters with deft, quick brushstrokes. Her chief detective is a former scholar who spots similarities between medieval guilds and the rigidly hierarchical institute. Throughout, Gur draws intriguing parallels between psychoanalysis and police detection. They are both lonely jobs, she writes, demanding time, patience and a sharp ear...