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Shepherds And Other High-level Experts

Deryla Murphy OVER THE HIGH PASSES: A YEAR IN THE HIMALAYAS by Christina Noble Collins, £12.95 O n every continent they are proliferat- ing; in the most unlikely corners one......

The Making Of A Member Of The Group

Anita Brookner HOW I GREW by Mary McCarthy Weidenfeld & Nicolson, £14.95 M ary McCarthy has told the story of her terrible upbringing in another volume, the superb Memories of a......