11 DECEMBER 1993, page 47

Elegy To A Lost Civilisation

William Dalrymple THE CROSSING PLACE by Philip Marsden HarperCollins, £16.99, pp. 248 I n the late summer of 1848 the Hon. Robert Curzon sat in the library of his fam- ily's......

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