21 NOVEMBER 1952, page 56
Life And Death At Sea
The Boat. By Walter Gibson. (W. H. Allen. 5s.) EACH of these books is a fragment of autobiography, recounting a voyage at sea, although Melville's White Jacket is slenderly......
Two Gentlewomen
THE old-fashioned word, gentlewoman, has to be revived to describe these two autobiographers. They both were born into a comfortable and cultured class, before the final......
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