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A Globe-trotting Dirty Dozen

Oleg Gordievsky UNDERCOVER LIVES: SOVIET SPIES IN THE CITIES OF THE WORLD edited by Helen Womack Weidenfeld, £20, pp. 308 A couple of years ago the KGB's Trav- el Guide to the......

Improving On Ptolemy

M. R. D. Foot T wo good books quite different in style cover two aspects of the same subject: the profound, continuing ignorance of western Europeans about that long-standing......

Spect' Tor

Holidays & Travel Special 30 January 1999 G.ET TN THE SWIM! Make sure your holiday property appears in our bumper annual Holidays & Travel Special — then sit back and wait for......