Giants: why we needed them

Think of any sizeable water gap.

It might be that between you and the island many kilometres off the coast, a place like Kangaroo Island (South Australia) or Sri Lanka as viewed from nearby India.

• Patrick D. Nunn
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It might be the gap between Wales and Ireland, or that separating France from England.

Were I to tell you that someone once walked across that gap, you might look askance at me, maybe fear for my sanity.

But if I insisted, the only way you might rationalise this (or I to you) would be to consider that the someone in question had been a…

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