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Nmi

Requiem for China Colin Thubron BEHIND THE FORBIDDEN DOOR: TRAVELS IN CHINA by Tiziano Terzani Allen & Unwin, £11.95 T iziano Terzani lived in Peking as Fat Eastern......

Night Lights

In Italy over the graves Of those not yet long dead At dusk the small lights wave And each seems tenderly set To comfort a slumbering child Not used to the dark night yet.......

The Company He Kept

Alan Ross THE SHAKESPEARE WALLAH by Geoffrey Kendal Sidgwick & Jackson, £12.95 G eoffrey Kendal seems so eminently suited to writing his own account of his travels as a......