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On The Trail

Elspeth Huxley River Road to China Milton Osborne (George Allen and Unwin £4.95) When confronted with a great uncharted river, geographers and explorers seem always to assume......

High And Low

John Brewer The Tory Crisis in Church and State, 1688-1730 The Career of Francis Atterbury, Bishop of Rochester G. V. Bennett (Oxford University Press 00.00) Between the......