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Sliding To Extinction

Jonathon Porritt GERALD DURRELL'S ARMY by Edward Whitley John Murray, f16.95, pp. 256 I n the week of the Earth Summit it is gratifying to read a book which describes a......

A Nudge Is As Good As A Sneer

Antony Flew THE CULTURE OF CONTENTMENT by John Kenneth Galbraith Sinclair-Stevenson, £14.95, pp. 195 T his latest and perhaps last book by an author whom, we are told, is......