Babylon. By Albert Champdor. (elek, 30s.) Sumptuously...
the Mesopo- tamian city, and its arts and crafts, from the days td . Hammurabi to those of Nebuchadnezzar. Not in itself a travel book, but any visitor to present- ( lay Iraq......
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SPECTATOR COMPETITION No. 464: Report by D. R. Peddy Competitors were invited to compose clerihews on words formed from initials, e.g.. WHO. NAAFI, ERNIE, SUNFED. A SUBJECT......
Portraits Of The Artist
SINCE the apologetic strain in literattire entered a phase of dominance about a century and a half ago, the need to explain why art, against all the appearances, is a worthy, or......
Spectator Competition No. 467
Set • by Russell Edwards The public library borrower often makes "is choice on the basis of - the- first few words or a book. Competitors are asked to give the opening sentence,......
Behind The Lianas. By Henry Larsen And May Pellaton. (oliver
and Boyd, I8s.) The most un- affected sort of travel book, for the most un- affected sort of reader: Henry Larsen, a Swiss of Danish origin, had always wanted to visit French......
Expedition Everyman. By S. B. Hough. (hod- Der And...
6d.) Paper-backed primer on travel by small car or scooter, with caravan or tent, and invaluable to anyone trying to do Europe on the cheap, by whatever means, and especially......
Ends Of The Earth
ed A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush. By Eric Newby. (Seeker and Warburg, 25s.) Mr. Newby, already author of a splendid book about going to sea Under sail, walked out of a fashion......
The Erivilege Was Mine. By Princess Zinaida Schakovskoy....
Not many people who lied from the Revolution return to Russia, and precious few princesses. The writer did so as the Wife of a Western diplomatist, fifty years to the day after......
Peacocks And Pipelines. By Elizabeth Neaves....
took her camera and her clichés across Pakistan and India, from Baluchistan to Bengal, sketching and photographing the most poverty-stricken people, and their ancient customs,......
Buried Gold And Anacondas. By Rolf Blom- Berg. (allen And
Unwin, 28s.) A journey to the Upper Amazon, looking for Pizarro's gold, and 'hiding snakes four times as big as a man; long- haired bird-eating spiders; and 'uncommonly savage'......
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