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Books

Finding God on imperial grounds William Dalrymple THE LAST GREAT IMPERIAL ADVENTURER by Patrick French HarperCollins, £20, pp. 440 O n 5 December, 1903, Colonel Francis Edward......

The Last Hero (for Some)

Basil Davidson THESIGER by Michael Asher Viking, £20, pp. 582 I t strikes me on reading this excellent biography that Wilfred Thesiger has been the kind of strange and......