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Plumbing The Freezing Depths

Adam Nicolson TRAWLER by Redmond O'Hanlon Hamish Hamilton, £20, pp. 339, ISBN 0241140145 p retty soon after beginning his twoweek descent into the Dantean world of the modern......

The Marxist And The Methodist

Murray Sayle CHIANG KAI-SHEK AND THE CHINA HE LOST by Jonathan Fenby Free Press, £25, pp. 562, ISBN 0743231449 E ven in his glory days Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, durable......