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Declining The West

Adam Zamoyski THE GINGERBREAD RACE by Andrei Navrozov Picador Original, £17.99, pp.344 I am naturally wary of people who start publishing autobiography before the age of......

Gone Up In Smoke

Michael Hulse AN EMPIRE OF THE EAST: TRAVELS IN INDONESIA by Norman Lewis Cape, £16.99, pp.240 a rsons of great power and influence,' notes Norman Lewis among the Dani peo- ple......