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Life Among The Aborigines, By W. E. Harney (hale, 18s.)

: back to Australia and a solid, thoroughly informative account of the Aborigines' habits, beliefs and tribal customs today by a Self-educated man who has spent a hard-working......

Travel Miscellany

Personal and Oriental, by Austin Coates (Hut- chinson, 25s.): this has roughly the form of a travel book, but is really a gathering together of twelve years' Asian experience by......

Pacific Pre-history

Easter Island: A Stone-Age Civilisation of the Pacific. By Alfred Metraux. Translated by Michael Bullock. (Deutsch, 21s.) EASTER ISLAND was discovered by the Western European......

To The Polar Sunrise, By K. Westcott Jones (museum Press,

13s. 6d.): short account of an unusual trip to North Norway, making the dramatic sunrise that appears after two months' total winter darkness the excuse for a trip round the......

A French Doctor In The Yemen, By Claudia Fayein (hale,

21 s.) : just what the title says, the doctor being female and endowed with the yelp- ing sort of enthusiasm that is the French equiva- lent of St. Triniab's. The Queen of......

In Highest Nepal, By Norman Hardie (allen And Unwin, 21s.)

: here we get back to the general run of travel books. Serious, thoroughly pleasant and quietly interesting account of a trip through the valleys of Upper Nepal to a Sherpa......

Picture Of Japan, By Cohn Simpson (angus And Robertson, 2

Is.): Australian professional writer goes to Japan to write a plain middlebrow guide to Japanese life today with an anti- Japanese audience in mind and Australian terms of......

Yugoslav Adventure, By William Woods (deutsch, 15s.):...

off to Yugoslavia with his wife and three small daughters and potters-about, seeing a good deal and divin- ing even more with a bright, self-conscious eye. They meet Tito, who......