23 JANUARY 1993, page 37

Not Duffers And Still Afloat

Juliet Townsend APPROACHING ARTHUR RANSOME by Peter Hunt Cape, 114.99, pp. 192 I t is early morning on Wildcat Island, but the Swallows are up and about. John is at the lookout......

New Man

When my head fell from the bed make the best of it I said, listen to the floor and I heard rumble of the mill still in the wood, rasp, split, sighs of timber dreamed I rolled in......

Seeing Through The Past Darkly

Peregrine Hodson JOURNEY TO KHIVA by Philip Glazebrook Harvill, £16, pp. 273 J oumey to Khiva is a literary pilgrimage in the footsteps of the men who went to Central Asia as......