10 JULY 1982, page 24

Cattleman And Devil Man

Richard West Travels in West Africa Mary Kingsley (Virago £5.95) 'T sabella Bird is the ideal traveller' wrote the Spectator critic in 1879, of the first edition of A Lady's......

Good Blood

Robert Bernard Martin A be Burrows used to sing plaintively that he was walking down Memory Lane without a single thing to remember. Not so H. R. F. Keating, who apparently has......