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Rumbling In The Jungle

Harriet Waugh STRANGE GODS by John Cornwell Simon & Schuster, f14.99, pp. 262 J ohn Cornwell is probably best known for A Thief in the Night and Earth to Earth, but he is also a......

The Hair And Fingernails Of The Corpse

Peregrine Hodson T he rot probably set in with Homer. The Odyssey has faults that still plague the genre of travel writing: a threadbare plot of departure, tribulation and......