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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......

An Antique Land

Jan Morris Palaces Of The Raj Mark Bence-Jones (Allen and Unwin E5) If the Empire still survived, and India offered an arena for our national energies, who would now be our......