'Imagine trying to find everything that's ever been published about a plant: which chemicals are in it, whether it's poisonous or not, where is it found,' said Alan Paton, from Kew.

“设想找出关于一种植物已公布所知的一切：化学成分，是否有毒，在哪里可以找到。”来自丘园的阿兰·佩顿说，“要找出这些信息，需要了解其曾被使用过的所有科学名称。”

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It was a musical version of the famous novel about Africa, "Cry,the Beloved Country" by Alan Paton.

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None of that would ever be a part of her life, for Ruth Khumalo would experience Zululand only in the grim terms of Alan Paton's fictional vision.

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In the opening pages of Cry, the Beloved Country, the poignant novel about a disintegrating Zulu family, Alan Paton depicted the barren land left to the tribe by the late 1940s and, with bitter brevity, described what had befallen the people struggling to survive on it.

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