11 MAY 2002, page 41

What Makes Us Who We Are

Philip Hensher PATRIOTS: NATIONAL IDENTITY IN BRITAIN, 1940-2000 by Richard Weight Macmillan, £25, pp. 826, ISBN 0333734629 N ational identity is not really natural and......

Sex, Drugs And Rocking With Laughter

Justin Marozzi IN SEARCH OF KING SOLOMON'S MINES by Tahir Shah John Murray, £17.99, pp. 233, ISBN 0719563240 W hen I asked Sir Wilfred Thesiger if he would be kind enough to......