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Twilight In Paradise

Myles Harris THE ISLAND OF THE COLOUR BLIND by Oliver Sacks Picador, £16.99, pp. 293 D arwin when he saw his first kangaroo wondered if the Pacific might not hide 'a second......

Close Focus On Africa

Philip Glazebrook CONGO JOURNEY by Redmond O'Hanlon Hamish Hamilton, £18, pp. 472 T his book describes a perfectly awful journey: the horrors of African travel load each page.......