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Armchair Travel

Rock of Exile. By D. M. Booy. (Dent, 25s.) White Cliffs to Coral Reef. By William Howell. (Odhams, 16s.) NOT many could envisage a stay of over a year on. Tristan da Cunha......

The New Adam

The Transformations of Man. By Lewis Mum- ford. (Allen and Unwin, 15s.) THoucti based upon archaeology and history, this is essentially a book about the future; two-thirds of......