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The Giant Of The North

John Vincent THEODORE REX by Edmund Morris HatperCollins, £25, pp. 772, ISBN 0002177080 A tnerican presidents are mostly a drab lot. The presidents between Lincoln and 1900 were......

Mad About Flowers

Jane Gardam THE COMPLEAT NATURALIST: THE LIFE OF LINNAEUS by Wilfrid Blunt Frances Lincoln. £25, pp. 264, ISBN 0711218412 T his is a revised and updated edition of the......