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Civil War In The Family

Michael Davie MY REGARDS TO BROADWAY by James Fairfax Angus & Robertson, Aust $17.95, pp .400 J ames Fairfax was chairman of the powerful Australian company, John Fairfax Ltd,......

The Path Of Glory Leads But To The Grave

Penelope Lively HOWARD CARTER: THE PATH TO TUTANKHAMUN by T.G.H. James Kegan Paul International, £24.95, pp. 443 hen I was a child in Egypt in the 1940s the discovery of the......

The King Of Naturalist Writers

Oliver Rackham THE EIGHT WILDERNESS DISCOVERY BOOKS by John Muir Diadem Books, £16.99, pp. 1030 J ohn Muir (1838-1914) was a Scots- American; ploughboy, inventor, drop-out,......