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Playing Away And Winning

Philip Glazebrook FRANCIS YOUNGHUSBAND AND THE GREAT GAME by Anthony Verrier Cape, £18, pp. 238 F rancis Younghusband, who lived until 1942, was the last in a line of travellers......

Toil And Trouble, But Worth It

William Green DOUBLE LIVES by Stephen Wall Bloomsbury, £13.99, pp. 154 T he trade of critic,' said Mark Twain, 'is the most degraded of all trades.' Nobody has ever disagreed.......