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Pinder

Ice clamps the tarn in its hollow, in the cove where the sun won't go; under their grey steel hatch, the blind white fish grow thinner. Trees are where a nail has scratched the......

China From Inside And Out

Giles Mathews STONES OF THE WALL by Dai Houying Michael Joseph, f9.95 TO GET RICH IS GLORIOUS by Orville Schell Robin Clark, f9.95 S ince 1978 China has been settling down into......

A Man Bewitched By Mermaids

Philip Glazebrook KEEPER OF THE STREAM: THE LIFE OF A RIVER AND ITS TROUT FISHERY by Frank Sawyer Allen & Unwin, £9.95 A good fishing book fills the fisherman who reads it with......