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Too Far Away From It All

Journey to Java. By Harold Nicolson. (Constable, 21s.) The Sheltering Desert. By Henno Martin. (William Kimber, 25s.) . Beyond the Pillars of Hercules: A Spanish Journey. By......

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Arnold Lunn (Allen and Unwin, 30,t); The First Ascent of Mont Blanc, by T. Graham Brown and Sir Gavin de Beer (O.U.P., 700; Mountaineering in Britain, a History, by Ronald W.......

The Dickens Monument

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