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Lands Beyond The Sunset

Alberto Manguel T HE E NCYCLOPEDIA OF EXPLORATION, V OLUME I: T O 1800, V OLUME II: 1800-1850 by Raymond John Howgego Hordern House Rare Books PTY Ltd, Potts Point, Australia,......

Sleuthing Among The Bashi-bazouks

Andrew Taylor T HE T URKISH G AMBIT by Boris Akunin, translated by Andrew Bromfield Weidenfeld, £12.99, pp. 230, ISBN 029764551X ✆ £11.99 (plus £2.25 p&p) 0870 800 4848 A......