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Stealing And Dealing

Andro Linidater THE ISLAND OF LOST MAPS: A TRUE STORY OF CARTOGRAPHIC CRIME by Miles Harvey Weidenfeld, £12.99, pp. 405, ISBN 029784234X T he fascination of a map is that it......

Big Nose Goes East

Mark Swallow RIVER TOWN by Peter Hessler John Murray, £18.99, pp, 402, ISBN0060195444 W hen I taught in a quite remote Chinese town four things got me down: the persistent......