Peter King's Afghanistan : Cockpit In High Asia (bles, 25s.)
is a travel notebook by someone who was driven by Land-Rover or rode on horseback over large tracts of the country look- ing for medicinal herbs as representative of an American......
Maigret On The Defensive, By Simenon 11-tarnish Hamilton,...
We are shocked to read that the respected Maigret has been mis- conducting himself—at his age, and with a young girl. But has he in fact? Maigret on the defensive brings all his......
In His Asia, Gods And Cities (faber, 36s.) Mr George
Woodcock cuts a wider swathe. He takes in most non-Communist countries between Suez and Tokyo, describing a journey by plane, boat, train, Land-Rover, etc. The outlines are a......
John Bell Was A Scotsman In The Service Of Peter
the Great. His Journey from St. Petersburg to Pekin 1719-22 (Edinburgh University Press, 45s.) describes an official Russian mission to the Chinese capital which he accompanied......
Folk Heroes
The Contact Man. By Stanley Wade Baron. (Seeker and. Warburg, 30s.) The Contact Man. By Stanley Wade Baron. (Seeker and. Warburg, 30s.) TILE English, as is notorious, reserve......
A Visit To Afghanistan Made Some Thirty Years Earlier Is
described in a new paperback edition of Robert Byron's The Road to Oxiana (Cape, I5s.). He writes in the 'with it' style of an older generation and comes over as a sort of......
It's A Crime 1 '
Shooting Script, by Gavin Lyall (Hodder and Stoughton, 18s.). Very good indeed. Gavin Lyall is a master of his craft. which is the expert telling of an adventure rather than a......
The Blurb For Miss Dymphna Cusack's Illyria Reborn...
says that a novel of hers has sold over a million copies in Russia, and I can well believe it. This book is an account of Albania, and shows her as one of those all-too-common......
Ends Of The Earth
PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR'S Roumeli (John Murray, 30s.) provides a non-Hellenic tour of Northern Greece in the sense that it concentrates most on the `Romaic' (roughly, 'folksy')......
From Sheeps' Eyeballs To Goats' Testicles—yes, Quite...
The Orgy (Deutsch, 21s.) ends with a poem called 'The Balls of the Goat' and contains a prose eulogy on the same topic on page 72. Every August, it seems, the remote Irish town......
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