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The Desert And The Sown

Oliver Rackham THE IDEA OF WILDERNESS by Max Oelschlaeger Yale, £19.95, pp. 477 T he term Wilderness, meaning, roughly, land never affected by civilisation, comes easily to the......

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An unsuccessful likeness James Buchan J ulian Barnes's new novel, Talking It Over, is so like Martin Amis's Success that I couldn't at first believe what I was reading. I......