14 MARCH 1981, page 20

Rocky Eden

James Hughes-Onslow Tracks Robyn Davidson (Cape, pp. 256, £5.95) When Thomas Cook presented Robyn Davidson with £1,500 in travellers' cheques last month, their first travel book......

Silent Father

Anthony Storr Joseph Conrad: Times Remembered John Conrad (Cambridge University Press, pp. 218, f1 , 0.50). Conrad is so odd and interesting a literary figure that any......