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Beneath A Rougher Sea

Jane Ridley HENRY AT SEA: PART ONE OF THE LIFE OF CAPTAIN HENRY NAPIER, RN, 1789-1853 by Priscilla Napier Michael Russell, £19.95, pp. 352 W hat a cursed, volatile, fiddling,......

Death Of The Gunfighter

Philip French THE CROWDED PRAIRIE: AMERICAN NATIONAL IDENTITY IN THE HOLLYWOOD WESTERN by Michael Coyne I. B. Tauris, £25, pp. 239 T he only movie most people can name earlier......