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A Sailor With Strange Credentials

Jeremy Swift RACUNDRA'S THIRD CRUISE by Arthur Ransome, edited by Brian Hammett Femhurst Books, £14.95, pp. 128, ISBN 1808660891 A rthur Ransome remains an enigma. The facts of......

Scillies In April

Running up to the Day-Mark Through the spring heather And high on the evening sea air, I flushed the distant bird — It launched on barred wings, Sank fast within half a furlong......

Challenge And Response

Raymond Carr EMPIRE, WAR AND FAITH IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE by Geoffrey Parker Allen Lane, £25, pp. 411, ISBN 0713995157 P rofessor Parker is one of the three most distinguished......