20 OCTOBER 1979, page 19

Doomed Eternal Youth

Christopher Booker Scott and Amundsen Roland Huntford (Hodder £13.95) The oldest story known to man is a Quest the Sumerian epic which tells how Gilgamesh set out to the end of......

The Acts Of The Maoists

John Scott Mao: The People's Emperor Dick Wilson (Hutchinson £9.95) The China Difference Ed. Ross Terrill (Harper & Row £6.95) Inside Peking Beverley Hooper (Macdonald and......