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High Charade

Robin Campbell Everest South West Face Chris Bonington (Hodder and Stoughton, £3,95) Interviewer: Why are you going to climb the Sou th . , ,vest Face of Everest? Bonington:......

Birds And Beasts

Robert Dougall Pedigree: Words from Nature S. Potter and L. Sargent (Collins £3.15). Two miles off the mainland of Orkney lies the sea-lashed island of Copinsay. The Vikings......