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Guilty Of Bad Luck

M. R. D. Foot THE COLDEST MARCH by Susan Solomon Yale, £19.95, pp. 383, ISBN 0300089678 I n this month of gloom and crisis, it is refreshing to read a book that reasserts old......

An Innocent Aboard

Jonathan Mirsky EIGHT BELLS AND TOP MASTS: DIARIES FROM A TRAMP STEAMER by Christopher Lee Headline, £24. 99, pp. 244, ISBN 0747274924 I f, as Joseph Conrad remarked, his aim......