The book is a sane and salient interpretation of the mess of junk shots, top kills, ram blocks, boreholes, reamer shoes and blowout preventers.

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Along with neighbouring Prenzlauer Berg, which has the same late-Victorian apartment blocks and spacious flats, Mitte has been gentrified right out of the urban pioneer's pocket book.

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