The Tears Of Isis. By Richard Carrington. (chatto And...
25s.) A new journey up the Nile, from delta to source, through an Egypt that the author sees sub specie ceternitaiis, haunted by the memories of 'more than two millennia of......
One Woman Farm, By Betty Lussier. (cape, 18s.) A...
American-bred, Spanish- by-marriage young woman decided to grow hybrid corn in Spanish Morocco. Surprisingly readable about its agricultural problems; tractors and corn huskers;......
Fiery Coolness
MISS MINA CURTISS has been by profession a university teacher of English literature and is also an authority on Proust. In the course of her researches she lighted, in rather......
The Travels Of Marco Polo. (andre Deutsch, 30s.) The...
will deplore the absence of notes, index, map, and any indication of whether the text is all here, who translated it, and when, but others will enjoy Marco Polo's range as a......
Incas And Other Men. By George Woodcock. (faber, 25s.) The
Woodcocks travelled through the sierras and along the sea-coast of Peru, over the Andes and into the jungle, enjoying in the towns the sophisticated Spanish buildings of the......
Ends Of The Earth
World Within. By, Tom Harrisson. (Cresset Press, 30s.) First, a lovingly remembered, some- times elegantly, sometimes obscurely, always evocatively written reconstruction of......
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