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The Great Game Replayed

Roger Howard TALIBAN by Ahmed Rashid I. B. Tauris paperback original, £12.95, pp. 274 B eing a remote, poverty-stricken and largely barren land, it is at first sight sur-......

Long Live The Weeds And The Wilderness

Michael Glover WILD FRUITS by Henry David Thoreau Norton, £22, pp. 410 T his is a marvellous, old-fashioned tale of patient, years-long scholarly endeavour, a story of good......

Myths In Modern Dress

Vicki Weissman DAYS LIKE TODAY by Rachel Ingalls Faber, £12.99, pp. 289 B eware the book with an explanation. Like one of those build-yourself-a-dressing- table kits, it will......