23 JANUARY 1988, page 31

Cameroon

An imperfect detail Dervla Murphy The success of an expedition depends mainly upon the perfection of the details where animals are employed for transport. Francis Galion (1872)......

Craig Brown

WHENEVER something awful happens to me abroad, I feel a little distant from it and even amused by it, as if I am an actor playing Widow Twankey in a provincial pantomime,......