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Spain Through True Blue Eyes

Raymond Carr RICHARD FORD, 1796-1858 by Ian Robertson Michael Russell, £28, pp. 381, ISBN 0859552853 R ichard Ford is now a forgotten figure and we must be grateful to Ian......

The Lure Of The Far Horizon

Graham Stewart CONQUERORS OF TIME by Trevor Fishlock John Murray, £25, pp. 444, ISBN 0719555175 I n 1795, John Evans, the son of a Methodist preacher, set out from St Louis......