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Soaring Close To The Sun

Diana Hendry FLIGHT by Victoria Glendinning Scribner, £16.99, pp. 260, ISBN 0743220285 T he title of Glendinning's novel has less to do with the fact that its hero, Martagon, is......

Fearful Beauty And Danger

Man Judd VOYAGES OF DELUSION: THE SEARCH FOR THE NORTHWEST PASSAGE IN THE AGE OF REASON by Glyn Williams HarperCollins, £15.99, pp. 467, ISBN 0002571811 D r Johnson was sound on......

The Dextrous And The Gibble-fisted

Robert Macfarlane RIGHT HAND, LEFT HAND: THE ORIGINS OF ASYMMETRY IN BRAINS, BODIES, ATOMS AND CULTURES by Chris McManus Weidenfeld, £20, pp. 412, ISBN 0297645978 I n the 1950s......